The Special Task Force (STF) who has been investigating the infamous Madhya Pradesh Professional Board (MPPEB) Pre-PG 2012 exam scam declared a cash reward of Rs 3,000 on former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) RK Shivhare, who is ‘absconding’ in the case.
A highly sources said that accused former DIG RK Shivhare of Gwalior not only arranged clearing of Pre-PG 2012 examination for his daughter and son-in-law, he also had facilitated clearing of candidates in Subedar/Sub Inspector/Platoon Commander Examinations conducted by MPPEB with the help of another accused Nitin Mahendra who was system analyst and made the clearance easy for the candidates by wrong means.
A case against Shivhare was registered at the STF police station, Bhopal, and after the case was registered he was suspended from his duties and was summoned to visit State police headquarters at Bhopal. However, the former top cop did not turn up and went missing.
He was searched at several places including his house in Gwalior but was not traced and was declared absconder.
Maintaining his status Shivhare remained absconding which lead to the declaration of a reward of Rs 3000 by the STF.
Meanwhile, one of the accused Sudheer Kumar Shrivastava in the Subedar/Sub Inspector/Platoon Commander Recruitment examinations in 2012 has been suspended by the Inspector General of Police (Rewa range) Pawan Shrivastava after receiving information by the STF regarding his connection with Shivhare who helped Shrivastava’s son in clearing the written examinations of Subedar/ Sub Inspector/ Platoon Commander Recruitment examinations -2012.
The accused Sudheer Kumar Shrivastava was posted as Town Inspector at Bargawan police station in Singrauli district.