lakhs of rupees were recovered by Special Task Force (STF) from main accused in the PMT examination scam and General Manager of Arbindo Medical College Indore on Tuesday.
Around Rs 79 lakh in cash was recovered by Special Task Force from the kingpin of the PMT examination Dr Jagdish Sagar and General Manager of Arbindo Medical College Indore Pradeep Raghuvanshi.
STF recovered around Rs 50 lakh from Pradeep Raghuvanshi and around Rs 28 lakh were recovered from Dr. Jagdish Sagar.Meanwhile a steno posted at the office of Technical Education Department involved in typing examination scam was arrested by the STF on Tuesday. Evaluator Devendra Malviya was arrested by STF who was involved in checking tampered copies of typing exam.
On Monday two stenos who were involved in typing examination scam of Directorate of Public Relations (DPI) were produced in the district court by Special Task Force on Tuesday and were sent under police custody.
Earlier when the DPI scam surfaced in which it was found that during the typing examination candidates were facilitated to clear the exams and around 2200 candidates were booked for fraud.
During the investigation it was found that government officials who were involved in checking the copies of typing examination were involved and on Monday two stenos Sadhna Mishra and Shyam Sunder Saxena were nabbed by the STF.
Sadhna Mishra was posted as Steno at office of Chief Engineer of Water Resources in Bhopal while Shyam Sunder Saxena was posted at the office of Chief Revenue Commissioner in Bhopal.
Both the accused were found guilty in checking tampered copies of typing examination and facilitated the typing examination.
According to the process after the examination the blank part has to be struck out and the invigilator has to sign which indicated end of the answer-sheet. During the investigation it was revealed that the whitener was used over the cancelled part and typing was done on the same part by the accused involved in the nexus and during investigation it was found that more than 2200 candidates have been facilitated by the nexus to clear the typing examination.