CBI registers six more FIRs in Vyapam scam

New Delhi: CBI on Thursday registered six new cases related to alleged irregularities in examinations conducted by Vyapam, also known as the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board. According to a CBI spokesperson here, the first case is against four persons relating to alleged illegalities committed in the Pre-Medical Entrance Test 2009.

The second is against seven persons relating to alleged irregularities in the Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013, while one person has been booked in the third case relating to the test conducted in 2012, she said.

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The spokesperson said the fourth case is against eight accused persons relating to alleged illegalities in the 2013 test and the fifth against two persons for "irregularities" in the same examination. She said the sixth case is against 21 accused persons relating to alleged illegalities in the Pre-Medical Entrance Test 2008, conducted by Vyapam.

Allegations of rampant corruption surfaced in professional examinations conducted by Vyapam after RTI queries showed alleged involvement of top functionaries of state government offices. Former state Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma and several top bureaucrats are currently in jail in connection with the scam.

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Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress leader Digvijay Singh on Thursday met CBI Director Anil Sinha with a plea to probe the role of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and the concerned officers of Indore Police who may be responsible for destruction/tampering of evidence relevant for bringing home the offences in a case related to Vyapam.

"It would be appropriate and proper for CBI to investigate this part of the scam first as it concerns the commencement of flawed investigation by the police agencies to protect the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan," he said in his representation.

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Singh said we expect all concerned who are guilty, be it the Chief Minister of the state and or officials of the investigating agency, should be taken into task for their nefarious designs to obfuscate justice, for misleading constitutional courts, destroying and tampering the evidence with the sole intention to save and protect the CM. He also claimed that the Special Task Force constituted in Madhya Pradesh ignored evidence against Chouhan to give clean-chit to him.