Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday conducted a raid at MM CSI church in Thiruvananthapuram in connection with a scam case related to a church-run medical college at Karakonam, where allegations of collecting hefty fees from the students on pretext of offering them admissions to medical college were levelled.
The CSI South Kerala diocese houses the office of church supreme leader Bishop A Dharmaraj Rasalam.
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Meanwhile, raids were also carried out at the residences of TTP Praveen, the church's secretary, and the medical director of CSI Medical college, Dr Bennet Abraham. The raids followed complaints about black money emergence in the church after the admissions to the church-run medical college began, said a Deccan Herald report.
Several complaints were registered at two police stations in the Thiruvananthapuram district. Recently, a court also put the bishop and others, who head the church, in a tight spot in a corruption case.