Economic Offence Wing (EOW) officials on Wednesday raided the Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University (MPBOU), in connection with the alleged question paper printing scam. MPBOU former Vice Chancellor SK Singh is the main accused in the question paper printing scam.
EOW SP SK Shukla said that EOW team investigated the matter and seized some important documents and hard disks of few computers.
The team also recorded statements of some employees of the university. Notably, the EOW had registered an FIR against former V-C Singh, for forming a fake company Infolink and carrying out Rs two crore scam in printing of question papers.
According to UGC guidelines, university should have called tenders for printing of question papers but Singh gave the printing order to Infotech without any tender. In this matter besides Singh and lucknow based Infolink private limited some employees of the university had been also made accused. EOW in its investigation has found Singh guilty of the charges.
After the matter surfaced in 2009 MPBOU Executive Council members had complained to then Governor and Chancellor of MPBOU but no action was taken against Singh allegedly due to his strong political connections. EOW also sought permission from State government and Governor for submitting challan against Singh, but the request is still pending.
The investigation has accelerated after Singh got retired. EOW team led by the SP recorded statements of the employee of examination section of the university. Computer hard disks along with few documents were also seized in which information regarding the question paper printing scam were present.
This was the third raid by EOW team, EOW has twice earlier raided the university for evidences. EOW team also discussed the matter with MPBOU Vice Chancellor Tariq Zafar.