Indore: A Special Judge (CBI) has sentenced 5 accused to imprisonment for rigging a 2009 Pre Medical Test (PMT) conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Boar Vyapam.
The accused are identified as Ravindra Dulawat, Satyapal Kustawar, Ashish Uttam, Shailendra Kumar, Sanjay Dulawat. Ravindra Dulawat, Satyapal Kustawar, have been pronounced an imprisonment of 2, and 3 years respectively while the other have been pronounced imprisonment of 5 and 7 years each.
The accused were pronounced under Indian Penal Code and Madhya Pradesh Examination Recognition Act provisions and also imposed fine of Rs 10,000 each on them, Special Public Prosecutor Ranjan Sharma told reporters. “The court found the five guilty after examining 70 witnesses. “Sanjay Dulawat was a tout who arranged solvers for PMT examinees,” the SPP said.
In February, the Madhya Pradesh government changed the name of the MP Professional Examination Board to Staff Selection Board.
The Vyapam scam refers to a host of irregularities, including candidates bribing officials, deploying others to appear in exams etc and involved politicians, senior officials, middlemen and businessmen. The CBI had taken over the investigation following a Supreme Court order in 2015