12 tonnes of paper documents to be handed over to CBI

BHOPAL: More than 12 tonnes of documents related to the Vyapam scam have to be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which has taken over the probe. The Special Task Force (STF), which was earlier looking into the scam, will transport the documents to the CBI team from Delhi at its newly set-up office in Bhopal, a source in the STF said.

The documents, including charge sheets, statements of the accused, victims, witnesses and others linked to the scandal, and case diaries that run into thousands of pages, will be handed over to the CBI team.

“For almost two years, we investigated these cases. The cases are complex and involve hundreds of people, whose testimonies are included along with documents of the investigation, and reports of the forensics and PEB officials. Now all these (documents) have to be handed over to the CBI,” the official said. “When we would submit charge-sheets, we often took them in a truck to the court as they were too bulky and copies had to be given to all the accused.”

The case diary of the STF investigation in the pre-medical test examination scam 2013 runs into a whopping one lakh pages while the case diary in the PMT 2012 has 80,000 pages.Challans have been submitted in dozens of cases — most of them have more than 5,000 pages.Though the CBI has a local office in Bhopal, it has been allocated a bungalow in the posh Professor’s Colony to run its operation.