Friday, June 26, 2015

Alleged multi-crore scam at Madurai Kamaraj University: Madras HC orders notice to CBI

MADURAI: The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday ordered notices to CBI's joint director, superintendent of CBI Anti-Corruption Bureau, principal secretary of higher education and registrar of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) on a petition seeking a probe into an alleged multi-crore scam at the university.

The division bench of Justices A Selvam and V S Ravi ordered the notice on a petition filed by Save Madurai Kamaraj University Coalition member S Vanchinathan.

In his petition, Vanchinathan said the former vice-chancellor of the MKU Kalyani Mathivanan and syndicate members M Rajarajan, R Kannan, K Pitchumani and P Periyakaruppan, registrar Rajasekharan and finance officer were involved in a multi-crore scam while deciding and notifying the tender for an e-content development programme for university's distance education department.

The petitioner said the audit report for 2013-14 year mentioned that instead of giving tender to a person who quoted Rs 37. 55 lakh, the e-content development programme was given to s SET Infotech which quoted Rs 6 crore. Likewise, another contract was given to SET Infotech Pvt Ltd for Rs 7.80 crore, while Janya IT Company quoted Rs 6.3 crore.

A complaint was lodged with the CBI on April 21 last, but there was no action, the petitioner said. This forced him to approach the high court.

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