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Home / News / Politics News / Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students
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    Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students

    Written by
    Sripriya Yegneswaran
    Edited by
    Vaneet Randhawa
    Last updated on Feb 13, 2017, 06:28 pm
    Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students
  • The Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of admissions of 634 students who were found to have fraudulently got MBBS seats under the Vyapam scam.

    The students had joined the course between 2008 and 2013.

    CJI Justice JS Khehar headed the bench that upheld the cancellation of their admissions.

    The cancellations were done after the MP Professional Examination Board carried out internal investigations.

  • In this article
    Genesis of the Vyapam scandal What is Vyapam? The mother of all scams: Vyapam Dean facilitating the probe found dead 4th death in the last 4 days CM gives in; CBI to investigate Vyapam scam The bloodiest scandal so far CBI, UP cops arrest prime accused in Vyapam scam FBI helps CBI track Vyapam impersonators Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students
  • 24 Jul 2013

    Genesis of the Vyapam scandal

    Genesis of the Vyapam scandal
  • Madhya Pradesh Medical Education Department, Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) and Medical Council of India were furnished notices by the MP High Court in relation with the MPPMT (pre-medical test) impersonation racket.

    The notices were issued following PIL filed by parents claiming that 300 ineligible candidates secured to get into the merit list.

    Dr. Jagdish Sagar and MPPEB employees were the prime accused.

  • Information

    What is Vyapam?

  • Vyapam is a Hindi acronym for the state board which holds exams for engineering, medical colleges and for government jobs. Candidates bribed bureaucrats and politicians who let imposters take the recruitment exams.

  • Jul 2015

    The mother of all scams: Vyapam

    The mother of all scams: Vyapam
  • The sheer magnitude of this scam is humongous with implications on the life of every MP student passing out from 2008-2013 (nearly 39 lakh students have appeared in exams conducted by Vyapam since 2008).

    The scam has alleged involvement of BJP ministers, MLAs, Sangh Parivar, Raj Bhawan staff too.

    The CM's wife Sadhna Singh too has been accused of being involved.

  • 5 Jul 2015

    Dean facilitating the probe found dead

    Dean facilitating the probe found dead
  • Dr. Arun Sharma, the Dean of medical college in Jabalpur was found dead in a Delhi hotel.

    Sharma was helping the Special Task Force which is investigating the Vyapam scam by furnishing documents of the examinees in the medical college he headed.

    His predecessor DK Sakalle who was heading the probe before him, had died a year back of burn injuries under suspicious circumstances.

  • 7 Jul 2015

    4th death in the last 4 days

    4th death in the last 4 days
  • Constable Ramakant Pandey who had been questioned 4 months ago due to links with Vyapam scam was found dead, hanging from a ceiling fan on 7 July.

    The police however have denied the links because the deceased was alcoholic and clinically depressed.

    Pandey's death comes 24 hrs after the body of Anamika Kushwaha, trainee sub-inspector was found in Sagar near the Police Academy headquarters.

  • 8 Jul 2015

    CM gives in; CBI to investigate Vyapam scam

    CM gives in; CBI to investigate Vyapam scam
    Credits:
  • After the series of deaths, Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan gave in to the mounting public pressure and asked for a CBI investigation of the pot-boiler examination scam.

    The Vyapam scam has significantly dented the BJP government's image with people involved dying mysteriously.

    This move on the CM's part is seen as a step to deflate the opposition's campaign for Chouhan's resignation.

  • Personal

    The bloodiest scandal so far

  • The official figure of unnatural deaths in this case stands at 24, while the unofficial figure is as high as 44. Most of the dead are between the ages of 25-30.

  • 4 May 2016

    CBI, UP cops arrest prime accused in Vyapam scam

    CBI, UP cops arrest prime accused in Vyapam scam
  • In a joint operation with the CBI, the UP Special Task Force arrested Ramesh Shivhare, one of the prime accused in the Vyapam scam, from Kanpur.

    Ramesh Shivhare had been absconding till now.

    Shivhare had allegedly acted as a middleman and provided impostors and counterfeit candidates to perform in the examination carried out by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board for a certain amount.

  • 12 Feb 2017

    FBI helps CBI track Vyapam impersonators

    FBI helps CBI track Vyapam impersonators
  • CBI aided by US FBI's facial recognition software has been able to track "125-plus men and women who helped medical aspirants pass the MP Pre Medical Test (MPPMT) to get admission into medical colleges in MP between 2008 and 2013."

    CBI claimed that 75 of these people have been probed in Rajasthan, Bihar and UP.

    It had earlier declared Rs.10,000 bounty for the impersonators.

  • 13 Feb 2017

    Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students

    Vyapam: SC cancels admission of over 600 MBBS students
  • The Supreme Court upheld the cancellation of admissions of 634 students who were found to have fraudulently got MBBS seats under the Vyapam scam.

    The students had joined the course between 2008 and 2013.

    CJI Justice JS Khehar headed the bench that upheld the cancellation of their admissions.

    The cancellations were done after the MP Professional Examination Board carried out internal investigations.

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