The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed charge sheets against 87 people including former Madhya Pradesh minister Laxmikant Sharma for their alleged role in the Vyapam case, news agency PTI reported.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed charge sheets against 87 people including former Madhya Pradesh minister Laxmikant Sharma for their alleged role in the Vyapam case, news agency PTI reported.
Sharma, a former higher and technical education minister under the BJP government in the state, had earlier been released on bail for his role in the multi-crore scam.
The former minister was an accused in seven cases related to the job recruitment and admissions scam. He was earlier granted bail in six cases.
In November 2017, the CBI filed a chargesheet against 592 people in the scam wherein medical seats were allotted in large scale by four private colleges in defiance of all laid out norms and guidelines issued by the Centre, state government, and the Supreme Court.
Explaining the modus operandi, the CBI officials said middlemen followed an engine-bogey system for pairing of candidates to take examination in alleged connivance with certain Vyapam officials. In this, a bright candidate (who had already taken coaching to prepare for the test and is well versed with the examination pattern) would be allotted a roll number just ahead of a not-so-bright aspirant so that the latter could cheat from him, they said.
The colleges, according to the November chargesheet, also violated the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Also the agency has written to Madhya Pradesh to take proper action against 229 students who took admission in these colleges violating all laws and paid hefty amount from Rs 70 lakh to Rs 1 crore.
According to the agency, which took over the case in 2015, 245 have been chargesheeted for the first time, as well as 22 officials of these private medical colleges. This included 143 engine and bogey candidates (impersonator and candidate), 17 guardians, 22 middlemen, and 46 exam invigilators.
The CBI had earlier given a clean chit to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the Vyapam scam, rejecting allegations that the computer hard discs seized from a suspect were tampered.
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