{"id":87354,"date":"2022-07-26T18:23:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=87354"},"modified":"2022-07-26T18:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:53:20","slug":"the-ed-detains-csi-south-kerala-bishop-at-the-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/the-ed-detains-csi-south-kerala-bishop-at-the-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"The ED detains CSI South Kerala bishop at the airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Church of South India&#8217;s South Kerala diocese bishop Dharmaraj Rasalam was reportedly detained by the Enforcement Directorate at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rasalam is facing probe in connection with alleged financial misappropriation pertaining to collection of capitation fee for admission to a church-run medical college in Thiruvananthapuram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources said that Rasalam was intercepted by the ED officials as he was about to leave the country citing a church event in the UK. He was asked to appear for quizzing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rasalam was quizzed for hours by the ED in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Raids were also conducted at the offices and residences of church officialsas well as a director of the Dr Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the church officials later maintained that the ED officials were convinced that the bishop was innocent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ED initiated the probe after the Kerala High Court quashed a report of the Kerala police exonerating the bishop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church of South India&#8217;s South Kerala diocese bishop Dharmaraj Rasalam was reportedly detained by the Enforcement Directorate at the Thiruvananthapuram airport on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[506,507],"class_list":["post-87354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-ed","tag-kerela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87356,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87354\/revisions\/87356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}