The police on Thursday registered a criminal case against Congress MP Kantilal Bhuria for inaugurating a government medical college in Ratlam a day before Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was scheduled to open it.
Former Union Minister Bhuriarepresents the Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha seat.
Taking credit of the new college constructed there, Bhuria reached the government medical college at Banjli in Ratlam along with his supporters and a priest and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday. After inaugurating the college, Bhuria told media persons, "Since Tuesday is an auspicious day, I inaugurated the college as the project had been approved during the UPA government.” After the district administration was alerted about it, officials were rushed to the spot and police personnel were deployed there.
The police have registered a case under section 188 of the IPC for violating prohibitory orders promulgated under section 144 of the CrPC. Besides, section 448 of the IPC has also been imposed for house-trespass against Bhuria and 15 others on a complaint by the college administration.
On Wednesday, Chouhan formally inaugurated the medical college building that has been constructed at a cost of Rs 350 crore. "It is a big gift to the Ujjain division and will set an example in the area of medical education," he said at the inauguration ceremony.
"After 1964, no new medical college was established in the state. But after I became the chief minister, we decided to set up a medical college in Sagar and five years back in Ratlam. Now the state has a total of 17 medical colleges, including 11 government ones," he added.