Vyapam scam: CBI conducts searches in MP, UP

Most of the cases being probed by the Special Task Force (STF) and monitored by the high court-appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT) have been transferred to the central agency that has also registered several preliminary enquiries in connection with the deaths of people linked to the scam.

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The CBI has so far registered 112 FIRs in connection with irregularities in the recruitment tests.

Searches were also carried out in Indore, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Chhatarpur, Ashok Nagar, Badwani and Bhind (all in MP), and Allahabad and Lucknow in UP, the state to which many impersonators belonged.

The premises belonging to Dhanraj Yadav, the former officer on special duty (OSD) to Governor Ramnaresh Yadav, and O P Shukla, the former OSD to the minister, were also searched.

The minister is allegedly involved in six cases of irregularities, while Nitin Mohindra, C K Mishra, and Pankaj Trivedi, all top officials of MPPEB, are reportedly involved in many more cases.

The properties of mining baron Sudhir Sharma, who is already in jail, and Jagadish Sagar, whose arrest in 2013 exposed the scam, were also searched.

CBI officer unconscious

A CBI officer, on way to Gwalior from Delhi, was found unconscious Thursday after suffering brain hemorrhage on train. DSP B S Jha was being sent as back-up and was not part of the team probing Vyapam scam, the CBI said.