MG University staff arrested for accepting bribe

 MG University staff arrested for accepting bribe

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

30.01.2022

Kottayam: The vigilance and anti-corruption bureau officials on Saturday arrested an employee of MG University while she was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 15,000 from a student. C J Elsy, who is working as a university assistant in the MBA section of the examination wing of the university, was the person arrested, said vigilance officials.

Elsy, a Pathanamthitta native, allegedly accepted bribe from a girl student who had passed MBA from a college in Ettumanur for issuing her provisional certificate. The student had studied in the 2014-16 batch. Elsy had allegedly demanded Rs 50,000 from the student for the speedy issuance of the certificate. When the student informed her that she could not bear the huge amount, Elsy agreed to reduce the bribe amount to Rs 30,000. As per the agreement, Elsy asked the student to pay Rs15,000 on Saturday and the remaining amount after a week. The student informed this to vigilance eastern range SP V G Vinod Kumar. Based on his directive, DSP of vigilance Kottayam unit Viswanathan and team arrested Elsy around 2pm on Saturday . The accused will be presented before the vigilance court in Thiruvananthapuram.

The student did her course in 2014-16 and had cleared the arrears in seven subjects later. She had appeared for a mercy chance in the remaining one paper in September last year. When the student had contacted the staff over phone to inquire about the results of the exam, Elsy had allegedly lied to her that she had failed in the exam and took Rs 1. 25 lakh from her in instalments by promising her that she would issue her a provisional certificate and consolidated mark list. 

However, when the result was published, the student passed in the paper by scoring 57 out of 100. It was then that she realized that she was being cheated. All the payments were made through the university bank account of Elsy.

Meanwhile, M G University employees union general secretary N Mahesh said that a detailed probe should be done to find if the accused had got the support from anybody else. The MGU Registrar has suspended Elsy from job pending an inquiry.