A court has sent the Church of North India (CNI) Jabalpur Diocese’s Bishop PC Singh to four days police remand on Monday.
The Economics Offence Wing (EOW) earlier arrested Singh over a cheating case registered against him.
Singh was produced before the court where he was sent to four days police remand, an official said.
Singh was returning from Germany to India and reached Nagpur airport via Delhi, Bengaluru was detained at the Nagpur Airport for interrogation, EOW (Jabalpur) Superintendent of Police Devendra Singh Rajput said.
EOW director general Ajay Sharma is monitoring development taking place in the investigation, while additional director general Mohammad Shahid Absar coordinated with various agencies including CISF to detain Singh at Nagpur airport, he said.
Father Hira Lal Masih, Archdeacon/Metropolitan Commissary, Diocese of Nagpur, Church of India, Indian Church Trustees filed a complaint with the EOW against Singh.
On preliminary investigation it was found by the EOW official that Rs 2.70 crore collected as students’ fees between 2004-05 and 2011-12 in various educational institutions of the society was allegedly transferred to religious institutions, misused and spent by the bishop for personal requirements.
A case was registered against Singh and former assistant registrar of Firms and Societies BS Solanki under sections 420, 406, 468, 471 and 120 B of IPC.
The searches was conducted in the residence and office Singh for alleged forged documents to change the educational society’s original name and unlawfully diverting students’ fees collected by various educational institutions for fulfilling his personal needs.
