Madhya Pradesh To Face Vyapam Scam Genie Again

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath has ordered a fresh probe into the 2013 Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) or ‘Vyapam’ scam, a day after former chief minister Digvijaya Singh wrote to him asking him to bring to book the key conspirators in the scam.

But even as it ordered the probe, the Congress government announced that the anonymous letter that purportedly unearthed the infamous scam that involved the rigging of examinations and recruitment tests conducted by the state professional examination board, had gone missing. Speaking in the Assembly on July 21, 2014, former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had taken credit for exposing the Vyapam scam by claiming that an anonymous letter had in June 2013 tipped off the Indore Crime Branch about the irregularities likely to take place in the pre-medical test (PMT) in Indore and he later ordered a probe into it.

However, state Home Minister Bala Bachchan, on Monday denied the existence of any such letter, landing the Opposition BJP in embarrassment. Bachchan said a search was launched in the MP Police Department, Intelligence Department, Special Task Force (STF) constituted by the state government to probe the Vyapam scam, and other places to trace the purported anonymous letter but it could not be traced. Replying to questions on the scam, Chouhan said the state government was free to do what it wanted. (IANS)

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