The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed a fresh charge-sheet against former Madhya Pradesh Minister laxmikant Sharma, his Officer on Special Duty (OSD) and 85 others for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Grade-II contractual teachers through Vyapam in 2012.
The chargesheet, filed in the Bhopal Special court, has named then controller of Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board- also known as Vyapam- Pankaj Trivedi, then principal system analyst in Vyapam Nitin Mohindra, 72 candidates, two other Vyapam officials and 11 middlemen, including Sharma.
OP Shukla, the OSD of Sharma, then Technical and Higher Education Minister in the BJP Government in the State, has also been named as an accused in the chargesheet. It is alleged that Mohindra and Trivedi helped in inflating the marks of the candidates appearing for the examination for the appointment of Grade-II contractual teachers, the CBI officials said.
The CBI has found that Sharma had appointed Trivedi as Controller of Examination even when he was not in the list of shortlisted candidates for the crucial post.
Trivedi through Mohindra allegedly returned the favour by manipulating the marks of the candidates ensuring their selections in the service.
CBI has conducted thorough investigation, also using digital evidence, into selection of candidates and alleged irregularity in the appointment of Controller Vyapam. It was alleged that Trivedi’d name had not even figured in the panel containing three names for the appointment of Controller Vyapam.
It was revealed during investigation that Trivedi later facilitated the illegal selection of certain candidates sponsored by one of the accused mentioned in the chargesheet.
The agency through forensic examination of the OMR sheets filled by the candidates found that the actual marks of the accused candidates were way below than the marks shown in the results. The CBI has found the details of altered mark-sheets from the laptop of Mohindra.