Pre-arrest bail pleas of 12 rejected over unauthorised admission to MBBS course

Special Judge M G Deshpande in separate orders said there was a prima facie case showing that cash amounts were received by the accused and they were integrated in various bank accounts to give them legitimacy.

The main accused in the case, Appasaheb Deshmukh, who was the treasurer of the trust, had received Rs 2.98 crore which he had invested in various businesses and deposited in the accounts including of his son Deepak Deshmukh, whose anticipatory bail was rejected on Thursday.

The court said there were nearly 350 students who took admission in these courses and that Rs 65.7 crore were collected from them, but they could not appear in the exams as the admission was illegal. The court said that 1 to 2 years of these students were wasted due to this. The court said that while Appasaheb had claimed to be a farmer with

agriculture as his only source of income, the transactions showed that he had purchased immovable property from the proceeds of crime.

ED through special public prosecutor Arvind Aghav had opposed the applications filed by the accused stating that they were summoned multiple times but they did not appear before the agency. Defence lawyer Ravi Jadhav said they were not connected to the case and that whatever the ED requires for its probe, the documents are already provided to ED.