India, July 15 -- The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against a senior professor of Nagaland University on corruption charges on July 12, the agency said on Tuesday.

The case was registered on Saturday against Chitta Ranjan Deb, a senior professor and director Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC), Dean of School of Sciences, and head of Department of Botany

In a statement, CBI said the case was registered following allegations that he was indulging in various corrupt and illegal practices, and with a predetermined intention to cause wrongful loss to the university and corresponding personal pecuniary gain to himself in connection with supply of scientific equipment and consumables.

According to the first i...