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CBI Arrests Retired Orissa HC Judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi, Four Others In Corruption Case

Swarajya Staff

Sep 21, 2017, 01:35 PM | Updated 01:34 PM IST


CBI office in Delhi (left) and 
Orissa High Court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi (right).
CBI office in Delhi (left) and Orissa High Court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi (right).

The CBI has arrested retired Orissa High Court judge Ishrat Masroor Quddusi and four others in connection with a corruption case, agency sources said here today.

The arrests were made late last night after a detailed search operation at eight locations, including the residence of Justice (retired) Quddusi in Greater Kailash here. Searches were also carried out in Bhubaneswar and Lucknow.

“The others arrested in the case were B P Yadav and Palash Yadav of the Prasad Educational Trust which runs a medical college in Lucknow, Biswanath Agrawala, a middleman and hawala operator Ramdev Saraswat,” the CBI sources said.

“The arrested accused will be produced before a competent court today,” a CBI spokesperson said here.

The spokesperson had yesterday said that a case was registered against them for allegedly trying to settle an ongoing matter related to a medical college being barred from admitting new students. (PTI)


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