VYAPAM SCAM ACCUSED DAMOR’S FATHER BLAMES CBI FOR SHODDY PROBE

BHOPAL: Mehtab Singh Damor, father of late medical student, Namrata Damor, on Monday alleged she was killed by those accused in the Vyapam scam.

“The postmortem report proved it and forensic experts put their stamp on it but as the CBI failed in collecting evidence, it termed the death of my daughter a suicide," he told HT.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which probed the scam, on October 30 reportedly filed a closure report in a special court in Indore on the death of Damor, who was allegedly linked to the scam and whose body was found in mysterious circumstances near railway tracks on January 7, 2012. She was a student of Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Indore. An accused in the scam, she allegedly took admission in the medical college by using unfair means.

Talking to HT, Mehtab Singh alleged, "CBI officers didn't put in any effort to send the accused of my daughter's murder behind bars. When the first case was registered at Sanyogitaganj police station in Indore in 2012, police detained two persons who had booked for her a train ticket in the Indore-Bilaspur train and handed it over to her. But after receiving calls from influential and powerful people, police allowed them to go."

"I gave to the police names of five persons who could have helped them nab the accused but the CBI didn't register their statements. The CBI refused the findings of the three-member forensic team, which performed the autopsy indicating that Namrata died of violent asphyxia. The CBI believed the expert comments of the medicolegal head in Bhopal, who termed it a case of suicide on the basis of photographs of the scene only," he said.

Whistleblower Anand Rai also seconded his allegations. “The CBI is doing nothing but closing cases before elections to favour the BJP government,” he alleged.