The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday registered an FIR and a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) in connection with the Vyapam scam. The FIR has been registered under sections 120B, 419, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and section 3/4 of the MP Recognised Examination Act, against 18 accused related to alleged illegalities committed in the Forest Guard recruitment test conducted by Vyapam in 2012. The CBI spokesman did not clarify the names of the accused in the FIR registered.
Besides, the Preliminary Enquiry (PE) that has been registered is related to the unnatural death of Brijesh Rajput, (age 25 years), a resident of Rajput Veterinary College, Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh. The alleged unnatural death occurred on October 22, 2010 in Jabalpur. Inquest proceedings under section 174 of the CrPC was conducted at Police Station Civil lines, district Jabalpur on October 23, 2010. The deceased was an alleged accused in FIR No; 449/2013 of Police Station Jhansi Road, Gwalior.
On the directions of Supreme Court of India, CBI has taken over the investigation of the said FIR and Inquest proceedings which were earlier registered/ conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Police. Further process of taking over of remaining cases is under way. Notably, on July 09, 2015, the Supreme Court had handed over the Vyapam scam, related to entrance examination and recruitment scam, to the CBI. So far, the CBI has so far registered 16 FIRs and seven preliminary enquiries in unnatural deaths. A 40-member CBI contingent headed by Joint Director RP Agarwal, a 1986 batch Assam-Meghalya cadre IPS officer, is probing the Vyapam cases.