leader of Opposition in the State Assembly, Satyadev Katare has taken the responsibility to ascertain the real causes in 44 deaths of Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam accused to party legislator Jitu Patwari by constituting a single member enquiry committee.Katare in a letter to Patwari said, “The accused in country’s biggest and educational and recruitment scam now gone infamous as VYAPAM are dying suspiciously and investigating agency and the State Government are misleading the people of the State over the numbers of death of accused.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) monitoring the investigations of the case done by Special Task Force (STF) informed the High Court some days back that 42 accused have succumbed till now. After that recently two more accused died raising the figure to 44 but the BJP leaders are misleading the people of the state by telling that only 14 deaths have been reported in the case.”Katare further said that to know the real facts of all the 44 deaths of the accused I constitute a single member committee in you to bring out the facts.
“You are requested to meet the kin of all those accused who died during the investigation of the scam to know the actual circumstances of their death and submit your report by July 19, 2015 so that it could be discussed in the legislative council meeting and strategy be formed to stop the State Government from misleading the people over the real number of deaths in the scam,” he added.Meanwhile, former leader of opposition in state assembly Ajay Singh in a separate statement alleged that CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan is misleading the people of state over MPPEB scam.“The Chouhan regime is working to save the high profile leaders of BJP and RSS involved in the scam and is putting the life of those accused at risk who are in jail,” Singh said.