Nagpur, Mar 16 (Agency) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has carried out search at the Nagpur office of the Church of North India (CNI) in connection with a case registered in Bhopal, an ED official said. The search is being done pertaining to a cheating case registered against P C Singh, bishop of the CNI’s Jabalpur Diocese, said the official. Pertinently, in September 2022, P C Singh had been detained at the Nagpur airport for questioning after an offence was registered against him. When Singh was in Germany, Madhya Pradesh(MP) police had recovered around Rs 1.6 crore in Indian and foreign currencies from the bishop’s residence in Jabalpur.
The case against Bishop Singh was registered in July 2022 after it was alleged that he was indulged in financial misappropriation in running an educational society, of which he was the chairman. Investigation revealed that Rs 2.7 crore collected as students’ fees by the society’s various institutions between 2004-05 and 2011-12 was allegedly transferred to religious institutions, misused and spent by the bishop for personal needs, the official said. Some money was also transferred to CNI’s Nagpur office, the official further said. Apart from Nagpur office, the ED is carrying out searches at 10 locations across India, he added.