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On Tuesday, The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) charged Madhya Pradesh’s former technical education minister Laxmikant Sharma and then officer-on-special-duty (OSD), OP Shukla, along with 83 candidates, four Vyapam officials and eight middlemen in a case relating to irregularities in Samvida Shala Shikshak Patrata Pariksha Varg-3 Examination in 2011 conducted by Vyapam.
Sharma was charged with getting a person of his choice, Pankaj Trivedi, appointed as the Controller of Examinations in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board also called Vyapam. Through Trivedi, Sharma reportedly pushed for selection of favoured candidates in the Samvida Shala Shikshak Patrata Pariksha Varg-3 Exam, conducted by Vyapam in 2011. Laxmikant Sharma and OP Shukla already spent time in prison in 2014 after the Madhya Pradesh STF, which investigated the case earlier, named them and 55 others in its charge sheet. Sharma, is also an accused in six other Vyapam cases.
This case pertains to alleged irregularities in the Examination of 2011 conducted by Vyapam. It was revealed from the files contained in the hard disk of the computer of then principal system analyst-Vyapam that marks of certain candidates were increased to enable them to qualify the test. "The same were verified with the OMR answer sheets of the candidates and it was found that marks of 84 candidates were increased to make them qualify the examination. One candidate is absconding, and investigation is continuing in his case," told CBI spokesperson Abhishek Dayal. The agency has charged them with criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, violation of IT Act, provisions of prevention of corruption act and others. The CBI took over the case in July 2015 following Supreme Court directives.
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