Vyapam scam: Whoever is born must die, says minister Home Minister Babulal Gaur

He ruled out a separate probe into the deaths and argued that the Supreme Court has already rejected a plea for a CBI probe. The former CM’s comments have come when the high court, which is monitoring the probe in the Vyapam scam, is yet to take a call on the deaths (23, when it gave the last order).

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Speaking to reporters, Gaur said everyone has to die irrespective of one’s status as king or commoner. “Whether the death takes place in a hospital or outside, it’s the same.”

Gaur, who was demoted from the chief minister’s post in 2005, was replaced with Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

Senior lawyer Vikek Tankha told The Indian Express that activists are set to move the Supreme Court to file a petition seeking a CBI probe in the scam, the death of persons connected with it and the irregularities in government-quota seats in private medical colleges because all of this was interlinked. “Maybe the court had a (different) point of view earlier. We are now approaching it with new facts and evidence,’’ he said.