Vyapam Scam

 

Vyapam Scam was a massive admission and recruitment scam involving politicians, senior officials and businessmen. Indore Bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court served notices to Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) and Medical Council of India(MCI)following a  Public Interest Litigation(PIL)filed by parents of some students after reports that more than 300 ineligible candidates managed to get into the merit list.

Complaints of irregularities and crooked deals in pre-medical test (PMT) were surfacing since 2009 but in the year 2013, a major scam was unearthed involving several officials and politicians from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)

The kingpin of the impersonation racket Dr. Jagdish Sagar was arrested and subsequently several other influential people were arrested including ex-Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma, MPPEB’s exam controller Pankaj Trivedi, MPPEB’s system analysts Nitin Mahendra and Ajay Sen and state PMT’s examination in-charge C. K. Mishra.

Engorcement Directorate under Prevention of Money Laundering Act,2002(MLA) in March 2014, booked MPPEB’s exam controller Pankaj Trivedi along with 25 other accused including former Madhya Pradesh higher education minister Laxmikant Sharma and his former officer on special duty O.P. Shukla

720 parents and students were booked and more than 129 politicians, officials and middlemen were arrested

Special Task Force of Madhya Pradesh police under the supervision of High Court is conducting the investigations

The credit to expose the scam goes to Indore-based medical practitioner Dr. Anand Rai

Narendra Tomar, a 30-year-old veterinary doctor, died in mysterious circumstances in Indore District Jail on SaturdayJune 27,2015

He was an accused in Madhya Pradesh’s high-profile Vyapam recruitment scam. 

He is the 24th accused or witness to have died under mysterious circumstances in the past five years.