Agency to set up separate camp office in Gwalior to probe cases
SOURCES SAID 50 CASES RELATED TO THE SCAM HAVE BEEN REGISTERED IN GWALIOR AND MORE THAN 300 ACCUSED HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FROM THE CITY
BHOPAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation team probing the Vyapam scam has decided to set up a camp office in Gwalior with 50 cases related to the multi-crore scandal registered in the city.
In fact, Gwalior has the second-largest number of Vypam scam-related cases registered, after Bhopal. Earlier, the Madhya Pradesh high court had allowed four special courts to exclusively deal with the scam-related cases, while five such courts were sanctioned for Bhopal.
Sources said that out of the 50 cases registered in Gwalior, in 12 of them charge-sheets have already been presented in court. More than 300 people accused in the scam have been arrested from places in and around Gwalior, while 200 are still absconding.
Moreover, the largest number of ‘unnatural’ deaths related to the Vyapam scam have been registered from the Gwalior-Chambal region.
Within four days of taking over the probe, the CBI has already filed 12 FIRs. CBI sources indicated that the agency is not very happy with the way the Special Task Force carried out its probe.
They added that after “nailing” high-profile scam accused like All India Kirar Mahasabha president Gulab Singh Kirar and former Vyapam exam controller Sudhir Singh Bhadoriya, the CBI may now issue notices to the two younger sons of Madhya Pradesh governor Ram Naresh Yadav in connection with forest guard recruitment scam, 2013.
Yadav’s oldest son Shailesh, against whom a case had been registered in connection with the scam, was found dead in Lucknow.
Yadav too had been named as an accused in the scam, but the MP high court had quashed the case against him, on the grounds of immunity granted to a governor against criminal proceedings in the constitution
STF officials had indicated that the younger sons of the governor could have been involved in the scam, and they were summoned for questioning.