Vyapam jobs scam: 720 students and parents booked in MP

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Former education minister Laxmikant Sharma is among 129 politicians, officials and middlemen who have been arrested.

Vyapam stands for the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, an autonomous body that conducts recruitment tests for various posts as well as admission to professional courses. Investigators have established that proxies appeared in the examinations with the connivance of officials and middlemen.

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STF sources said some students did not qualify for the pre-medical test but were booked to unearth “the larger conspiracy”. The investigation and arrests have had many moving court, most seeking relief till the probe is over. Students who have been rusticated want to know what happens to their careers if the probe finds that the charges against them don’t stick.

The Vyapam headquarters is located behind the D B City mall. Given the din over the evidence-tampering charges levelled by the Opposition Congress, there is police presence now in the building. All visitors have to record their details, show identity cards.

A spreadsheet recovered from the computer of Nitin Mohindra, a senior systems analyst with Vyapam, has formed the basis for several arrests across the state. The sheet is said to have entries related to Samvida Shala Shikshak Grade 2 and 3 exams for contract teacher jobs, names of candidates and those who had recommended them.