A court here has framed charges against former Union minister of state for health and family welfare Rasheed Masood and two senior government officials for alleged irregularities in allocating MBBS seats to private persons in 1990-91.
NEW DELHI: A court here has framed charges against former Union minister of state for health and family welfare Rasheed Masood and two senior government officials for alleged irregularities in allocating MBBS seats to private persons in 1990-91.
Special Judge Sunil Gaur took cognisance of the chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation’s Special branch last week and framed charges against Masood, Gurdial Singh, former resident commissioner of the Tripura government, and senior officer Sachidanand Dwivedi of Gandhinagar, Lucknow.
The court framed charges against them under sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 420 (cheating), 468 (breach of trust) and 471 (conspiracy for cheating) of the Indian Penal Code on the order of the Gauhati High Court in Assam.
The CBI alleged that a deputy secretary in the Union Health Ministry wrote a letter addressed to the secretary to allocate three additional MBBS seats for 1990-91 to the Tripura government, the chargesheet said.
A letter was endorsed to the resident commissioner of the Tripura government, requesting him to inform all about the additional allocation of seats in some medical colleges.
Gurdial Singh, then resident commissioner, allegedly signed nomination letters without authority on December 7, 1990 in favour of three students being admitted to MBBS courses in some colleges.
Gurdial Singh was allegedly involved with some other officials in the health ministry to make illegal gain and defame the Tripura government, the CBI alleged in its chargesheet.
However, on August 24, 1994, the Central government made it clear that the health ministry had never been issued any such letter and claimed that the letters were fake.
"Keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, the contentions raised by the accused persons can be well appreciated only after the evidence is led by the parties," the judge said in his order.
"However, at present, on the basis of the material placed before me, a strong prima facie case is made out against all the accused persons."
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