Three fresh cases have been registered by CBI in connection with multi-crore rupee Vyapam scam including that of "murder" in the mysterious death of MBBS student Namrata Damor in 2012, taking the total number of FIRs lodged by it to eight.While the Madhya Pradesh police had maintained that 19-year-old Damor, who was found dead on January seven, 2012, was suffering from depression and had committed suicide, two sets of doctors gave different opinions about her death raising suspicion.
The girl, who allegedly took the illegal route to gain admission in Gwalior Medical College, is believed to have been a witness to happenings in the case. A case under 302 (murder) of IPC has been registered to probe her death.The second case relates to alleged illegalities in the Pre-Medical
Test of 2010 and only one person has been named as an accused.The third case pertains to alleged irregularities during an examination conducted by Vyapam in 2010 in which the state police had named four accused. Seven more accused were included by the Special Task Force in this case.
With this, the number of FIRs registered by CBI in connection with the massive rigging of examinations for recruitment in government jobs and admissions in educational institutions has gone up to eight.The CBI team, which has been camping in Bhopal for the last five days, had registered five cases in connection with the alleged scam which included a case against member of Madhya Pradesh Backward Classess and Minorities Commission member and his son.
The investigating agency also launched a probe into the "mysterious" deaths of five persons associated with the scam, including a TV reporter Akshay Singh who had gone to cover stories related to the scandal involving the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB), also known by its Hindi acronym Vyapam.Singh, a TV Today group reporter, had died on July 4 minutes after interviewing Damor's parents.
With the Supreme Court while handing over the investigation in the scam to CBI having asked it to probe the deaths of people linked to it, the agency also called for records from the Superintendents of Police of Ujjain, Kanker, Gwalior, Jhabua and DIG, Indore, of "mysterious" deaths in the case.
Congress has alleged at least 49 people associated with the scandal have so far died under "mysterious" circumstances. Vyapam scam: BJP suspends leader named in CBI's FIR .Backward Class Commission member and BJP leader Gulab Singh Kirar, who is named as an accused along with his son in the Vyapam scam, has been suspended by the party following registration of fresh FIR against him by the CBI.
"We have suspended him from the party's primary membership yesterday," state BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan told PTI, when asked about Kirar's status in the party following registration of FIR against him and his son Dr Shakti Singh Kirar in the Vyapam's Pre-PG scam.
Kirar had been untraceable since the scam was exposed and his name figured in it during the STF's probe.The probe agency (Gwalior STF) had registered a case against Kirar and his son about eight months back.However, state Congress chief spokesman K K Mishra alleged that earlier BJP did not take any action against him.
The Congress had yesterday called a day-long statewide bandh called over the Vyapam scam and stepped up its demand for resignation of state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.The CBI has named eight persons in the FIR registered on July 15 in a case related to Pre-PG examination of 2011, which includes Gulab Singh Kirar and his son Shakti Singh Kirar.
The central probe agency has registered five FIRs in connection with the scandal and also launched a probe into the "mysterious" deaths of five persons associated with the scam.Vyapam scam: CBI registers three fresh cases