The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday filed a charge-sheet against two accused persons, including the candidate and middleman who arranged impersonator under sections 120 B, 419, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and section 3/4 of MP Recognized Examination Act, 1937 in the court of Special Judge, Vyapam Cases, Jabalpur.
CBI had registered a case on August 18, 2015 against 60 accused on the orders of Supreme Court of India dated July 09, 2015 and took over the investigation of FIR No.898/2013 registered earlier at Police Station Garha, Jabalpur. It was alleged that the accused persons entered into a criminal conspiracy with each other for cheating, forgery and impersonation in PMT-2008, PMT-2009 and PMT-2011 conducted by Vyapam and thereby, they managed admission of 29 candidates in MBBS at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur.
The investigation revealed that the candidate took the assistance of one impersonator in the written Examination of PMT-2009 with the help of middleman. After intensive efforts, the middle man, who was absconding since the registration of FIR by local police, was arrested on May 03, 2016 at Kanpur (UP) by CBI and presently he is in judicial custody. The said middleman was allegedly keeping the ill-gotten cash amounts in the bank account of his brother. The expert opinion of CFSl on handwriting/signature on the OMR answer sheet had proved that the candidate was not appeared in the examination and the unidentified impersonator was appeared on his behalf in the said examination.
The investigation against unidentified impersonator and other accused persons has been kept open under section 173 (8) of the CrPC.