ACB arrests dean of medical college run by PMC for asking Rs 16 lakh in bribe

The accused has been identified as Ashish Shrinath Banginwar (54), dean of Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Nitin Jadhav, ACB, in a press release issued on Tuesday. The college is run by PMC - Medical Education Trust, and Banginwar holds a "class I" position.

ACB arrests dean of medical college run by PMC for asking Rs 16L in bribe

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The Pune unit of the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday arrested the dean of a medical college, run by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). He was caught red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 10 lakh for the admission of a student to an MBBS course under the institutional quota.

The accused has been identified as Ashish Shrinath Banginwar (54), dean of Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College, said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) Nitin Jadhav, ACB, in a press release issued on Tuesday. The college is run by PMC – Medical Education Trust, and Banginwar holds a “class I” position.

The father of the student, who cleared the NEET 2023 examination, filed a complaint with the ACB’s Pune office, saying that his son was selected for an MBBS course at the Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Medical College under the “institutional quota” in the first round of admission.

When the father approached Banginwar regarding the admission process, the latter allegedly asked him to pay an additional amount of Rs 16 lakh — along with the regular government fee of Rs 22.5 lakh — for the same.

Based on his complaint, the ACB launched an investigation and confirmed the case.

ACB sleuths laid a trap and caught Banginwar red-handed while he was accepting the first installment — Rs 10 lakh — of the bribe at his office on Tuesday, reads the press release.

An FIR has been registered against Banginwar under relevant sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act (POCA) at the Samarth police station, and further investigation — led by DySP Sudam Pachorkar — is underway, said officials.

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