By IANS
Angamaly (Kerala) : The controversial Christian prayer centre near Trissur district Friday said that it would approach the Kerala High Court to quash the complaint of irregularities filed by a court-appointed investigation team.
The complaint has been filed by the special investigation team (SIT) led by Inspector General of Police Vincent M. Paul who was asked to conduct a detailed probe into all the activities by the high court after it received complaints of criminal activities including unnatural deaths taking place in the Muringur Divine Retreat Centre.
According to the SIT, there were 974 deaths of inmates in the last few years and the centre authorities were running a de-addiction centre without mandatory clearances.
Speaking to reporters here, Fr George Pannackal, the director of the centre, said they would approach the court.
"Not a single family member of the 974 people who died here has raised any doubt," defended Pannackal.
Already the Kerala unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party has demanded immediate closure of the centre and have termed that this centre is the Noida of Kerala.
It was on Monday that the special investigating team had filed a formal complaint against the centre on the basis of the findings of a court-directed probe into allegations of criminal activities there, including unnatural deaths.
They have indicted Pannackal and 10 other members of the staff, including nuns as accused.
The centre, billed as Asia's biggest of its kind, was subjected to a surprise inspection by a joint team of police and state health department officials in September last year.
The inspection detected irregularities in the manner in which the centre was treating a large number of patients suffering from depression and alcoholism.