While investigating the PMT scam, the Madhya Pradesh police on Wednesday created chaos in the State by conducting raids in almost all the districts and detaining a number of students and their parents.
Official sources said that the Special Task Force (STF) that is investigating the MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam is in possession of a list of around 413 students who are suspected to have cleared the Pre-Medical Test (PMT) in the past couple of years. The STF officials handed over this list to the police headquarters (PHQ) and on the directives of the DGP, the action was taken.
Sources claimed that around 171 students and their parents were brought to the STF office on Wednesday.
Some of them who were in possession of the anticipatory bail were also brought for questioning. The whole day, a number of students including boys and girls were taken inside the office, while some were allowed to go.
Till late night, official sources claimed that around 50 students were arrested and further investigation was on. Those who were arrested are from Bhopal, Indore, Jhabua, Badwani, Khargone, Dewas, Alirajpur. The officials did not give exact figure as how many students have been arrested and how many are in detention only.
In all the districts, the officials of police stations were engaged in the work of conducting raids and arresting the suspected candidates, whose list was with the STF officials. In Bhopal, over two dozen teams were formed for the raids, while in Indore, as many as 40 police teams were constituted which carried out simultaneous raids at the given addresses of the accused and rounded up as many as 20 accused in Palasia, Khajrana, MIG, Sanyogitaganj and Annapurna police stations following a night-long combing operations which continued on Wednesday as well.
Following a missive from the DGP, DIG Indore range, Rakesh Gupta in hastely convened meeting of all the SHOs late Tuesday, submitted them the list of accused who had either appeared in the PMT 2012-13 examinations or had approached the main accused to qualify the PMT examinations. Submitting the list of the accused, the DIG had directed all the SHOs of the police stations in the city to ensure the arrest of all the accused within three days.