Vyapam Scam | CBI files chargesheet against 87 including ex-minister Laxmikant Shama
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday filed charge sheets against 87 people including former Madhya Pradesh minister Laxmikant Sharma for their alleged role in the Vyapam case, news agency PTI reported.
Sharma, a former higher and technical education minister under the BJP government in the state, had earlier been released on bail for his role in the multi-crore scam.
The former minister was an accused in seven cases related to the job recruitment and admissions scam. He was earlier granted bail in six cases.
In November 2017, the CBI filed a chargesheet against 592 people in the scam wherein medical seats were allotted in large scale by four private colleges in defiance of all laid out norms and guidelines issued by the Centre, state government, and the Supreme Court.
Explaining the modus operandi, the CBI officials said middlemen followed an engine-bogey system for pairing of candidates to take examination in alleged connivance with certain Vyapam officials. In this, a bright candidate (who had already taken coaching to prepare for the test and is well versed with the examination pattern) would be allotted a roll number just ahead of a not-so-bright aspirant so that the latter could cheat from him, they said.
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