Over 40 deaths in Vyapam rip-off proceed to be a thriller

By IANS

BHOPAL: The Vyapam rip-off, which has irregularities in three classes — impersonation, manipulation and engine- bogie (nexus between authorities staff and middlemen), got here to gentle in 2013. The CBI in its a number of chargesheets has listed over 1200 accused in several classes, together with forgery, bribery, misuse of presidency workplace and others.

However, greater than the irregularities in conducting the exams in as many as 13 classes and recruitment of state authorities staff, together with medical and academics, numerous mysterious deaths of the accused and the witnesses after the rip-off surfaced shook the nation. And these deaths stay a thriller even in the present day at the same time as 50-55 circumstances have been disposed off by the particular CBI court docket in Bhopal.

On document, there are greater than 40 folks related to the rip-off who’ve died because it broke in 2013. A senior Public Prosecutor representing the CBI within the court docket stated, “Over 55 people have died so far, including some during the court proceedings due to which many accused and co-accused were acquitted.”

Most of the individuals who have been both accused or witnesses within the cover-up have died attributable to alcohol-related sicknesses, suicide or highway accidents. At least ten middlemen have died in highway accidents since 2010, three years earlier than the rip-off broke.

The deaths embrace accused and witnesses in addition to a journalist who was investigating the rip-off, and have largely been beneath mysterious circumstances. At least 5 individuals died in unusual circumstances, inside a interval of 1 week in 2015, together with the dean of a Jabalpur medical faculty Dr Arun Sharma, medical scholar Namrata Damor and TV journalist Akshay Singh, who was probing the rip-off.

The different individuals who died in suspicious circumstances embrace Shailesh Yadav, who was the son of then Madhya Pradesh Governor (late) Ramnaresh Yadav. Shailesh, who was named as an accused within the multi-crore Vyapam rip-off, was discovered lifeless beneath mysterious circumstances at his father’s official residence in March 2015.

Similarly, a constable Sanjay Yadav, who was a witness within the case was discovered lifeless at his home a day earlier than he was to seem within the court docket. “See, there was a strong nexus of politicians, senior bureaucrats ans even police officials and they wanted to stop witnesses at any cast. People were targeted and killed. Who killed these people and who was behind it is still a mystery and is likely to remain so,” stated a Bhopal-based activist, who refused to establish himself.

BHOPAL: The Vyapam rip-off, which has irregularities in three classes — impersonation, manipulation and engine- bogie (nexus between authorities staff and middlemen), got here to gentle in 2013. The CBI in its a number of chargesheets has listed over 1200 accused in several classes, together with forgery, bribery, misuse of presidency workplace and others.

However, greater than the irregularities in conducting the exams in as many as 13 classes and recruitment of state authorities staff, together with medical and academics, numerous mysterious deaths of the accused and the witnesses after the rip-off surfaced shook the nation. And these deaths stay a thriller even in the present day at the same time as 50-55 circumstances have been disposed off by the particular CBI court docket in Bhopal.

On document, there are greater than 40 folks related to the rip-off who’ve died because it broke in 2013. A senior Public Prosecutor representing the CBI within the court docket stated, “Over 55 people have died so far, including some during the court proceedings due to which many accused and co-accused were acquitted.”

Most of the individuals who have been both accused or witnesses within the cover-up have died attributable to alcohol-related sicknesses, suicide or highway accidents. At least ten middlemen have died in highway accidents since 2010, three years earlier than the rip-off broke.

The deaths embrace accused and witnesses in addition to a journalist who was investigating the rip-off, and have largely been beneath mysterious circumstances. At least 5 individuals died in unusual circumstances, inside a interval of 1 week in 2015, together with the dean of a Jabalpur medical faculty Dr Arun Sharma, medical scholar Namrata Damor and TV journalist Akshay Singh, who was probing the rip-off.

The different individuals who died in suspicious circumstances embrace Shailesh Yadav, who was the son of then Madhya Pradesh Governor (late) Ramnaresh Yadav. Shailesh, who was named as an accused within the multi-crore Vyapam rip-off, was discovered lifeless beneath mysterious circumstances at his father’s official residence in March 2015.

Similarly, a constable Sanjay Yadav, who was a witness within the case was discovered lifeless at his home a day earlier than he was to seem within the court docket. “See, there was a strong nexus of politicians, senior bureaucrats ans even police officials and they wanted to stop witnesses at any cast. People were targeted and killed. Who killed these people and who was behind it is still a mystery and is likely to remain so,” stated a Bhopal-based activist, who refused to establish himself.