COPS TO LOOK INTO DOC’S VYAPAM SCAM CONNECTION
LUCKNOW : KGMU’s resident doctor Manisha’s suicide has once again shone the spotlight on the role of UP based solvers’ in Vyapam scam -- a mammoth entrance examination, admission and recruitment racket unearthed in Madhya Pradesh.
She was interrogated by a team of Gwalior police in 2015 for allegedly appearing as a paper solver for two women candidates in the recruitment examination conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board. She also had to spent around six months in prison in Gwalior. Later, she was granted bail by the MP high court. An alumna of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Manisha was arrested along with one Umesh Bansal of SN Medical College, Agra, by a special investigation team of Madhya Pradesh. While her family members have accused another KGMU resident doctor of abetting her suicide, the police team probing the case have decided to look into her possible involvement in the scam. Sources in Gwalior police said she appeared as a solver for one Sarita Sharma in 2008, for which she was reportedly paid ₹2.5 lakh. The next year, she appeared in place of one Jyoti Yadav, for which she reportedly received ₹50,000. The MP police said that majority of solvers in the scam were from Uttar Pradesh. Out of around 400 solvers arrested by the MP SIT, as many as 90% were from UP, they said.
The police had charged her under sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating and dishonesty), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 201 (giving false information) of the Indian Penal Code.
Despite getting a seat in the post graduate programme of KGMU in May 2015, Manisha joined the course only in November that year after she was released from jail. The Vyapam scam investigation was eventually transferred to the CBI. The matter was heard in the Supreme Court, which ordered in 2017 that admissions of 634 students whose names appeared in the scam be cancelled. Manisha, who was admitted to the trauma centre as a case of poisoning on Saturday night, died on Monday afternoon.