BHOPAL: A recent FIR by the Madhya Pradesh STF into the notorious Vyapam rip-off, nearly eight years after a grievance was filed by former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, has triggered unrest inside a piece of the ruling celebration, with a few of them seeing it as a ‘political’ transfer. Some have taken up the matter with the BJP’s high brass in New Delhi, sources say.
The case has been registered towards eight folks taking cognisance of a grievance filed by Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh in 2014, alleging {that a} part of BJP leaders had been allegedly concerned within the rip-off. This FIR, registered on the fag finish of 2022, has additionally raised a number of eyebrows over its ‘sanction’.
STF officers dismiss the political controversy and say it is routine motion since they’re already investigating a whole bunch of complaints associated to the Vyapam rip-off that weren’t taken up by the CBI.
STF registered the case on December 6 towards Prashant Meshram, Ajay Tengar, Krishna Kumar Jaiswal, Anil Chouhan, Hari Kishan Jatav, Shiv shankar Prasad, Amit Badole and Sulwant Singh Morya for allegedly clearing PMT 2008-2009 by impersonators. STF says their signatures and different credentials had been discovered to be mismatched throughout a probe by the ‘questioned paperwork (QD) part’ of police headquarters.
Digvijaya had submitted an inventory of scholars in three completely different classes, alleging that some ministers of the MP authorities and some senior BJP leaders had been concerned within the rip-off for monetary profit.
It was in July 2015 that the Supreme Courtroom transferred Vyapam investigations from MPSTF to CBI. The central company registered 155 circumstances. Immediately, CBI has no Vyapam case pending for investigation, and a whole bunch of investigators, despatched to Bhopal for the huge probe, have been despatched again to their father or mother items.
They embody CBI SP Manish Surti, who headed Vyapam zone department from day-1 The company has chargesheeted greater than 3,500 suspects, and now, the prosecution takes over.
Rip-off whistleblowers Dr Anand Rai and Ashish Chaturvedi are going by robust instances. Whereas Dr Rai has been arrested and shifted to jail in Sagar district over a political protest motion, Chaturvedi is battling a lethal an infection and is underneath fixed medical commentary.
The case has been registered towards eight folks taking cognisance of a grievance filed by Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh in 2014, alleging {that a} part of BJP leaders had been allegedly concerned within the rip-off. This FIR, registered on the fag finish of 2022, has additionally raised a number of eyebrows over its ‘sanction’.
STF officers dismiss the political controversy and say it is routine motion since they’re already investigating a whole bunch of complaints associated to the Vyapam rip-off that weren’t taken up by the CBI.
STF registered the case on December 6 towards Prashant Meshram, Ajay Tengar, Krishna Kumar Jaiswal, Anil Chouhan, Hari Kishan Jatav, Shiv shankar Prasad, Amit Badole and Sulwant Singh Morya for allegedly clearing PMT 2008-2009 by impersonators. STF says their signatures and different credentials had been discovered to be mismatched throughout a probe by the ‘questioned paperwork (QD) part’ of police headquarters.
Digvijaya had submitted an inventory of scholars in three completely different classes, alleging that some ministers of the MP authorities and some senior BJP leaders had been concerned within the rip-off for monetary profit.
It was in July 2015 that the Supreme Courtroom transferred Vyapam investigations from MPSTF to CBI. The central company registered 155 circumstances. Immediately, CBI has no Vyapam case pending for investigation, and a whole bunch of investigators, despatched to Bhopal for the huge probe, have been despatched again to their father or mother items.
They embody CBI SP Manish Surti, who headed Vyapam zone department from day-1 The company has chargesheeted greater than 3,500 suspects, and now, the prosecution takes over.
Rip-off whistleblowers Dr Anand Rai and Ashish Chaturvedi are going by robust instances. Whereas Dr Rai has been arrested and shifted to jail in Sagar district over a political protest motion, Chaturvedi is battling a lethal an infection and is underneath fixed medical commentary.
