Giving a clean chit to Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the CBI, in the status report in the Vyapam case, has stated that the hard disk was not tampered with.
The hard disk was sent for forensic examination to the Central Forensic Sciences laboratory, and the report has concluded that there was 'no tampering in the hard disk'.
As per the CFSl report, the disk was last accessed on July 15, 2013, which is three days before it was seized from Nithin Mohindra, the then principal system analyst of Vyapam.
Notably, Congress leader and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Digvijay Singh, had moved the Supreme
Court alleging that the probe agencies tampered with the hard disk to remove references to Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The court had then ordered the CBI to file a status report to the trial court. The CBI has also filed charge-sheet against 490 accused in the Vyapam case related to irregularities in PMT 2013 exams in Madhya Pradesh.
The Vyapam scam was initially probed by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, under the monitoring of the High Court. But the Supreme Court handed over the case to the CBI in July 2015 after a slew of petitions alleged bias on the part of the State STF.
Two years later, the whistleblowers led by Anand Rai said justice cannot be expected till such time that the ruling party in the State and the Centre remains the same. Rai has now said they will now move the Supreme Court again, pointing out the irregularities in the CBI probe.
Commenting on the CBI report, Public Relations Minister Narottam Mishra has said that truth always prevails and after the CBI has come out with a clean chit, those doing politics by leveling baseless allegations should apologize.