SHILLONG, APR 24: The elusive and controversial CMJ University chancellor Chandra Mohan Jha has been remanded to 1o days police custody by the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate B Joshi on Thursday. He was produced before the local court after as soon as he was brought from Bihar by the Meghalaya CID after he was arrested from Patna three days ago.
A special CID team that had gone to Bihar to arrest Jha arrived in Shillong on Thursday afternoon and produced him before the Chief Judicial Magistrate court of B Joshi at around 5:30 pm.
“We have sought for a 14 days police remand,” public prosecutor IC Jha told reporters. The court granted the police request for remand of Jha’s to 10 days despite his counsel SG Momin opposing it on the plea that the police had collected enough “documentary evidences” against him.
Jha had eluded arrest for over a year since former Meghalaya governor RS Mooshahary blew the lid of his involvement in awarding hundred of fake PhD degrees to teachers across the country last year.
The Supreme Court last month had cancelled CM Jha’s anticipatory bail which led to his subsequent arrest from a public campaign in Bihar on Tuesday afternoon where he is contesting as an Independent candidate from Jhanjharpur parliamentary constituency.
Jha founded the first self-financed university CMJ University in 2009in Meghalaya and awarded a record number of 434 PhD degrees during the period between 2012 and 2013 apart from registering 490 more PhD scholars during the same year in violation of the UGC norms.
The then Governor RS Mooshahary’s principal secretary MS Rao had filed an FIR against Jha on the directive of the governor.
Several of the University’s top officials were arrested and released on bail and recently the chancellor of a private university in Arunachal Pradesh, Dhanwant Singh Matharoo, for his alleged role in the affairs of the CMJ University.- By Our Reporter
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