The Special Task Force of the Madhya Police here on Thursday filed supplementary chargesheet against 36 accused including former controller of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board Pankaj Trivedi and Sandip Shilpkar in connection with Pre-Medical Test – 2013 and the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board scams rocking the state early this year.
The supplementary charge-sheet carrying over 24,000 pages were filed before the court of special judge Manoj Kumar ladhia, said STF AIG Ashish Khare talking to the media persons adding that the STF has filed supplementary charge-sheet of 450-650 pages against each accused separately.
Besides Pankaj Trivedi and Dr Sandip Shilpkar who are main accused in the case, the supplementary chargesheet carries names of students and their guardians, who managed to get admission in various medical colleges of the state through unfair means.
The main accused Pankaj Trivedi, Sandip Shilpkar along with other accomplices allegedly helped hundreds of students to get illegally into Government medical colleges in the State in the last three years in collusion with employees of the board, a government body that conducts pre-medical test (PMT).
During the course of initial investigation, Indore crime branch police officials who were earlier probing the scam, had lodged an FIR against 28 accused, including mastermind Jagdish Sagar, MPPEB system analyst Nitin Mahindra, senior system analyst Ajay Sen, assistant programmer CK Mishra and others in connection with the scam.
later the case was handed over to the STF of the M P Police which following probe into the matter, filed charge-sheet against 28 persons including the kingpin of the MP PMT examination impersonation racket Jagdish Sagar, under sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and several sections of IT Act, in the court of first class judicial Manoj Kumar ladhiya on October 6 this year.
Jagdish Sagar was charge-sheeted for running the impersonation racket while MPPEB officials and students were charged for facilitating the racket with providing role number in sequence and involvement in the racket.
Along with the chargesheet, the STF sleuths also submitted a list of 856 suspected students who benefitted from the scam and got admission in the medical colleges of the state was presented before the court.