After remaining in police custody for three weeks, the alleged kingpin of the inter-State Madhya Pradesh Pre-Medical Test scam, Dr Jagdish Sagar was on Saturday sent to judicial custody till August 16.
However, sleuths of crime branch who raided the house of Bhopal-based tour operator accused of being part of the second MPPMT racket, Tarang Sharma, failed to get any major break.
Sagar, who was arrested from a hotel in Mumbai on July 13, was last sent on police remand till August 3 by a local court on July 30. He was again produced before a local court on Saturday which sent him to judicial custody at the Indore Central Jail till August 16.
Cops of Vijay Nagar police station had on July 30 got his police remand from court for further questioning him about furnishing false information about his criminal past to the passport office to obtain a passport in 2005.
Sagar, who was accused in four criminal cases between 2000 and 2003, had allegedly furnished false information to the passport office and police through an affidavit about not being involved in any criminal case, to obtain the passport in 2005.
Sagar’s right-hand man Gangaram Prajapati (on information about whose arrest the police have announced a `10,000 award), was still on the run with his wife and three sons. Also, Sagar’s doctor wife Sunita and his two children were still untraceable.
Meanwhile, police on Saturday recovered cash worth at least `13 lakh that were hidden inside mattresses from the house of prime accused in Pre-Medical Test Scam Dr Jagdish Sagar in Indore.
“We have found three bundles of thousand-rupee notes worth around `13 lakh that had been kept inside the mattresses in his bedroom. He had told us about the money during interrogation, Senior Superintendent of Police Dilip Soni informed. In an earlier raid on July 16, `79,000 of ill-gotten money was confiscated from his house.