VYAPAM: CHARGESHEET AGAINST 592
NEW DELHI: In Vyapam’s PMT-2012 case, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday filed charge sheet against 592 persons. The report contains the name of four Vyapam official.
According to CBI in the charge sheet around 245 new names have been made accused. The remaining 347 people have been earlier charge sheeted other security agencies. The names in the CBI charge sheet includes the name of some private colleges chairmen of the college including Ajay Goenka, chairman of the Chirayu Medical College, SN Vijaywargiya of the People’s Medical College, Suresh Singh Bhadauria from the Medical College in Bhopal, and JN Chowkse of the LN Medical College.
The other four Vyapam official in the charge sheet were identified as Pankaj Trivedi (the then director of Vyapam), Nitin Mohindra (the then Senior Systems Analyst), Ajay Kumar Sen (the then Deputy Systems Analyst) and CK Mishra (the then programmer).
The name in the charge sheet included 334 Solvers & Beneficiary candidates; 155 guardians of Beneficiary candidates; 46 Invigilators; 2 then officers of the Department of Medical Education, Madhya Pradesh and 26 officials of the four Private Medical Colleges based at Bhopal and Indore. During the investigation, it was discovered that some racketeers along with their accomplices were allegedly arranging Solvers for beneficiary candidates in the examination. The pairing of respective solversbeneficiaries was being done by the racketeers by getting the roll numbers of these SolversBeneficiary candidates manipulated by Vyapam officials, such that a beneficiary candidate was seated right behind his Solver.
This enabled the Beneficiary to cheat and copy the answers from Solver. The CBI investigation also unraveled the further conspiracy in the case including the complicity of Public Servants of Department of Medical Education, Government of MP and also Management as well as College Level Admission Committee of four Private Medical Colleges based at Bhopal and Indore.
When CBI took over an investigation of this case,145 accused persons were either unidentified or untraced. Majority of such accused persons were Solver candidates who in connivance with accused middlemen had given wrong addresses on their Application Forms and were thus, not traceable. During the course of an investigation, CBI had discerned that these Solver candidates were amongst the medical college students or bright medical aspirants taking coaching in the States of MP, UP, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Maharashtra.
CBI collected pertinent details of students of various medical colleges and coaching institutes spread all over these States, and succeeded in preparing a database of more than 10 lakh (approx), such students.
The charge sheet was filed in a court in Bhopal in the case of the Pre-medical test (PMT) conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board or Vyapam in 2012. CBI had earlier filed a charge sheet against 490 accused persons in a case relating to alleged irregularities in PMT-2013 Examination conducted by Vyapam in the Court of Special Judge for Vyapam Cases, Bhopal.