Bishop Singh Kolkata connect: Huge transactions took place for admissions, a Kolkata school under scanner

BYA STAFF REPORTER

The tainted Bishop and moderator, Synod Church of North India, Rt rev PC Singh is allegedly linked to a prominent school in South Kolkata, according to investigations carried out by the Economics Offences Wing (EOW) of Madhya Pradesh police. Sources in EOW told ANM News that Bishop Singh was on the board of the highly prestigious education institution. Independent investigations carried out by ANM News confirmed the EOW probe but we are not naming the institution as senior officers urged not to divulge for the sake of probe. ANM News has learnt that EOW are investigating to find out whether current Bishop of Kolkata, Paritosh Canning or his predecessors were involved with Bishop Singh in the multi crore scam. Sleuths indicated that they have recovered incriminating documents which indicated that Bishop Singh had strong links with the institution where huge amounts of money were transacted as illegal donations for admission over several years.

The Madhya Pradesh police EOW said that there are around 174 bank accounts linked to him out of which 128 are personal or under various organizations, he is tied with, and the remaining 46 are attached to educational institutions. According to documents made available to ANM News the Synod of the Church of North India, through a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, demanded a high-level probe in misappropriation of funds and alienation of Trust properties of CNI Origin UCNI through the ED and CBI.

The letter also stated that CNI Trust Association and CNI Origin UCNI Church Union Founder Mission Trustee, Dr DG Bhambal informed in the meeting of the Synod Council (General Body Meeting) of Church of North India Trust Association was held on July 31, 2022 at Clara Bruce Girls’ School Prayer Hall and on the recommendations of CNI origin UCNI Church Union Founder Mission Trusts, it was unanimously resolved that Rt Rev P C Singh Bishop of Jabalpur Diocese, functioning illegally as Moderator, Synod of Church of North India, be suspended and hereby authorised Dr D G Bhambal, Moderator Synod Church of India Trust Association (MC) (MS) to issue him suspension letter on behalf of the Synod Church of North India (Church of North India Trust Association). The letter also alleged that Rt Rev Dr P C Singh, allegedly had connections with the underworld and executed false and fabricated transfer deeds of properties of CNI and violated FCRA rules and misappropriated crores of rupees. Bishop Singh denied the charges during the course of interrogation.

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The Economic Offences Wing of Madhya Pradesh police arrested the bishop of the Church of North India’s Jabalpur Diocese PC Singh, and registered a case of cheating against him on Monday. This is after the Police detained Singh for questioning from the Nagpur Airport, Maharashtra. Police confirmed that it recovered Rs 1.65 crore and USD 18,000 (Rs 14.3 lakh) from PC Singh’s residence and also found a total of Rs 2.02 crore worth of Fixed Deposit Receipts.

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“It has been found that money from educational institutions transactions has taken place and gone into personal accounts. We have a lot of information, but as the investigation progresses, we will work it out. But our first step is the educational institutions and looking into siphoning of funds from them. And also looking into the source of where the money has come from and where it has been spent. Whatever illegal activities that the money has been spent on will be taken into account and action will be taken”, SP Devendra Singh Rajput noted in the case. Earlier on Thursday, the EOW had conducted raids at the residential premises of the bishop to recover crores of cash and foreign currency. The EOW also raided the office of the Church to recover documents related to the alleged misappropriation of funds. Bishop PC Singh has been charged with cheating and engaging in the misappropriation of funds in running an educational society.