Even as the infamous Pre-Medical Test-2013 scam case that rocked the State was yet to wind up its investigation, the Special Task Force (STF), who was probing the scandals has decided to go deeper as it found evidences that similar irregularities were taken place in the PMT-2012 as well.
Sources in the know informed that the new revelation came after interrogation of six accused namely — exam controller Pankaj Trivedi, Nitin Mahedra, Ajay Sen, CK Mishra and Dr Sanjeev Shilpkar and Vikas Singh, who are now under STF custody.
They reportedly told the sleuths of the SFT that in the year 2012 around 700 candidates were arranged in a disorderly manner.
It may be noted that a case regarding the PMT-2013 examination fraud was registered in the Rajendra Nagar police station of Indore which was investigated by STF.
A case against Pankaj Trivedi, Ajay Kumar Sen, CK Mishra, Dr. Jagdish Sagar(Indore), Dr. Sanjeev Shilpkar(Ashok Nagar), Vikas Singh (Chitrakoot), Tarang Sharma(Bhopal), Sudheer Rai(Indore), Sonu Pachori(Bhind), Amit Nimavat(Rajasthan) has been registered and the investigation has been started.
Sources said the STF will now start investigation against those students who had appeared in the PMT -2012 examination. It has also demanded information of final list of the selected candidates who have taken admission in the Government Medical Colleges and Private Medical Collages in medical colleges of the state.
The accused Pankaj Trivedi, Nitin Mahendra, Ajay Sen, CK Mishra, Dr. Sanjeev Shilpkar and Vikas Singh who are under police custody are going to be grilled by the STF to investigate the candidates, scorers, agents and officials involved in the whole PMT examination scam.
On Wednesday, Vijay Singh lodhi, Sanjay Awasthi and Vijay Kumar have been sent under police custody till November 2.
After lodhi’s confirmation, Manivanan Swami who owns a typing institute at Nehru Market Barkheda was arrested and around nine type writers have been recovered. lodhi and Kumar used the institute to complete the ‘copies’ for tying.
Meanwhile, the three accused who were arrested on Wednesday in connection with In fake mark sheets scam of Open School, were produced in the court on Thursday and were sent under judicial custody by the court.