Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Friday booked mining baron and BJP leader Sudhir Sharma and IPS RK Shivhare for their involvement in the frauds committed in the MP Professional Examination Board.
Shivhare has been booked in the Sub-Inspector recruiting scam, examination of that was conducted by the Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) in the year 2012. The investigating agency is also looking for their involvement in the Pre-Medical Test (PMT) 2013 scam.
Congress candidate from Bhopal’s Dakshin-Pashchim constituency Sanjeev Saxena is also one of the accused in the case and the police are searching for him.
STF action followed as it wanted to question Sharma for his alleged role in the inspectors and constable recruitment examination conducted by the MPPEB exam and links with its controller Pankaj Trivedi but he failed to turn-up at the agency's office despite being officially summoned for questioning.
Sharma, is already facing a CBI and lokayukta probe for alleged kickbacks to mining officers.
Recently STF had submitted a charge-sheet against 28 people in 2013-Pre-Medical Test (PMT) before a district court at Indore. Sudhir Sharma was allegedly in touch with some of the key accused in the scam, said sources.
A supplementary charge-sheet will be filed against former Madhya Pradesh Professional Education Board (PEB) exam controller Pankaj Trivedi and more than 100 other students who managed to get admission in different medical colleges through unfair means.
Main accused in the PMT scam Jagdish Sagar will be charge-sheeted under different sections of IPC, Arms Act and Excise Act, said sources. Evidence against him includes his handwritten contents on monetary transactions and list of 317 students found from his house.
He allegedly helped more than 100 students get admission illegally into government medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh in the last three years, exposing a racket he ran in collusion with employees of the board a government body that conducts pre-medical test (PMT).
Meanwhile, Dr Vinod Bhandari, who is also wanted in the PMT fraud case, on Friday submitted medical documents related to his disease stating that doctors have advised him bed-rest. It was informed in the documents that he had moved to Mauritius on November 12 for treatment and on November 22, he sustained cardiac arrest and he was hospitalized. After having discharged, he is on bed-rest. Whenever, he would be medically fit, he would appear before the STF, the documents stated.