The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday searched the premises of Tamil Nadu Waqf Board chairman and AIADMK MP Anwhar Raajhaa, besides the then secretary and correspondent of the Board’s college, in Chennai, Madurai and Ramanathapuram in connection with an alleged recruitment scam.
The agency has registered an FIR against Jamal Mohideen, the then secretary and correspondent of MSS Waqf Board College, Mr. Raajhaa as the Waqf Board chairman, and unknown others.
“It was alleged that assistant lecturers not having requisite qualifications as per the University Grants Commission rules were appointed against payment of illegal gratification of Rs.30-35 lakh. Amounts were also misappropriated from the accounts of Waqf Board College,” said a CBI official.
The official said searches were carried out on the premises of Mr. Mohideen in Madurai, and that of Mr. Raajhaa in Chennai and Ramanathapuram.
The agency alleges that money was demanded from students for admission, and also from the staffers who were retiring, for processing of their papers.
The High Court had issued the orders while hearing a petition by B. Sardar Basha, a member of the general body of the college who alleged irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff.
