T R Pachamuthu, chairman of the SRM group of educational institutions, was arrested by the Chennai city police on Friday.
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Recently, the Madras High Court rapped the police for not questioning Mr. Pachamuthu’s suspected role in the admission scandal and threatened to transfer the probe to an external agency.
Madhan, who was also a high-profile Tamil film producer, allegedly wrote a letter to his friends saying that he was going to attain “Samadhi” in Varanasi before he went missing on May 28.
The Chancellor of the SRM University head quartered near here, was arrested in connection with more than 100 complaints from parents related to “transactions” involving payment of money running into several crores for getting admissions to medical courses in SRM institutions.
Parents had alleged they were duped after being promised medical seats in colleges run by the SRM Group, and a case was filed by police. Madhan reportedly worked as an admission agent for the university.
Pachamuthu slept at the commissioner’s office on Thursday night.
Pachamuthu was arrested under Indian Panel Code (IPC) sections 420 (cheating), 406 (criminal breach of trust) and 34 (common intention).
However, the key person in the case, Madhan, is still at large. A Police complaint was registered by the family of Madhan and the police teams were sent to Kasi but were unable to locate him. They are Vijayapandiyan, an associate of Madhan, Dr Bargavan Pachamuthu, a medical doctor and also the state sectary of the medical wing of Indhiya Jananayaka Katchi (IJK) party (a party founded by Pachamuthu), Shanmugam, Madurai district sectary of the IJK party and Babu, Dindugal district secretary of IJK party.
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Reacting to that Pachamuthu in a statement said he is not connected with Madhan as he was expelled from the IJK party.
