The Congress-era SC-ST student scholarship scam in Uttarakhand appears to be getting bigger with each layer being taken off by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), exposing the nexus between the decision-makers in the Social Welfare Department, middlemen and management of education institutes which resulted in the swindling of over Rs 500 crore by way of registering ghost students and using fake certificates to release government funds.
A private group of educational institutes in Roorkee is the latest to face the heat in the scam as the ED has provisionally attached one immovable property worth Rs 1 crore (approximately), under the provisions of Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, belonging to the Vardhman Educational Society which runs Institute of Management Studies, Roorkee and IMS Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Source