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CBI to miss SC deadline on Vyapam scam probe

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will miss the April-end deadline given by the Supreme Court to complete its probe in the multi-crore rupees Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh.

BHOPAL: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will miss the April-end deadline given by the Supreme Court to complete its probe in the multi-crore rupees Vyapam scam of Madhya Pradesh. In December 2016, the apex court had directed the Central probe agency to complete investigations as expeditiously as possible, preferably within four months.

The Central probe agency had taken over the investigation in July 2015. The scam was busted by the Indore police crime branch in July 2013.

Till now, the CBI has managed to complete its probe in at least 145 cases out of the total 170 cases related to themulti-crore Vyapam scam. But with fresh leads emanating in cases pertaining to Madhya Pradesh’s Pre-Medical Test(MPPMT)  2012 and 2013, the probe is far from over.

The CBI will submit a status report on the probe by the end of this month before the apex court. The fresh leads in the engine-bogie cases came to the fore after a US government agency helped CBI track 100-plusstudents of medical colleges and private coaching centres in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi and Rajasthan, who hadimpersonated actual candidates in the MPPMT exams.

The engine-bogie cases of 2012 and 2013 pertain to ensuring seating arrangement of engine (person adept in the subject who sits in front of an aspiring medico and allows him to copy from his answer sheet) ahead of bogies (aspiring candidates) to help them clear the test. The roll number pairings of the engines-bogies for the MPPMT in both years was done by an inter-state impersonation racket kingpin and Indore-based community medicine practitioner Dr Jagdish Sagar in collusion with former principal system analyst of Vyapam, Nitin Mohindra, the prime accused in several Vyapam scam cases.

The number of accused in both the engine-bogie cases runs into thousands.

The CBI has filed chargesheets in 60 of the 170 cases and is in the process of filing chargesheets in more cases.

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