The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said that it has arrested a former treasurer of a Maharashtra-based educational society under the anti-money laundering law in a case of alleged duping of medical aspirants in lieu of grant of admission to them in a college which was not eligible for the MBBS course.

The agency in a statement said that Appasaheb Ramachandra Deshmukh of Kolhapur-based Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Education Society (SCSES) was taken into custody on Friday and he has been sent to ED custody till June 24 by a special court.