The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has on Tuesday filed charge-sheet against 95 accused, including 83 candidates, four Vyapam officials and eight middlemen, in a case relating to irregularities in contract teachers eligibility exam class-3 Examination– 2011 conducted by Vyapam in the court of Special Judge of Vyapam cases, Bhopal.
CBI had registered the case on the orders of the Supreme Court of India on July 9, 2015. Earlier, the STF of Madhya Pradesh had registered cases related to irregularities in contract teachers eligibility exam class-3 Examination– 2011.
The said FIR was earlier registered under sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120 B of the IPC, section 65/66 of the IT Act and section 4/3 (D) (1)(2) MP Recognized Examination Act, 1937 against 77 candidates.
Marks of these candidates were illegally inflated and others, including middlemen and Vyapam officials. The STF, Bhopal had filed four charge-sheets. It was revealed from the files contained in the Hard Disk of the computer of then Principal System Analyst Vyapam that marks of certain candidates were allegedly increased to enable them to qualify the said test.
The same were verified with the OMR answer sheets of the candidates and it was found that marks of 84 candidates were increased, in the final result, to make them qualify the examination. One candidate is absconding and investigation is continuing in his case. The Investigation further revealed that the accused public servants and other private persons collected the examination details viz roll number, form number etc. of the candidates and provided the same to then Principal System Analyst, Vyapam.
It was also alleged that in the result data base, he increased the marks as per the requirement of the candidates so as to make them qualify the examination and thereafter the actual marks obtained by the 84 accused candidates were deleted from the result file.
No change in the OMR answer sheets could be made. The original marks obtained by the accused candidates, as per the OMR sheets, were less than the marks declared in the result.