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NEW DELHI: A special CBI court on Monday sentenced five people to seven years of rigorous imprisonment in the Vyapam case of Madhya Pradesh.
Indore’s Special Judge, CBI (Vyapam cases) has sentenced candidate Satyapal Kustwar, candidate Ravindra Dulawat, paper solvers Shailendra Kumar and Ashish Uttam, and middleman Sanjay Dulawat to seven years in jail in connection with MPPMT-2008 examination.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered the case in December 2015 on orders of the Supreme Court. The case was originally registered at Sanyogitaganj police station in Indore against the accused in 2009.
Accused Kustwar and Dulawat fraudulently qualified in the MPPMT-2009 examination conducted by Vyapam on July 5,2009 through impersonation, the CBI said.
Both the candidates were allotted Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Medical College at Indore in counselling, the FIR said.
During admission process, both the candidates were caught by the institute’s scrutiny committee as their photographs did not match with the photographs affixed on result sheet of MPPMT-2009, it said.
The scrutiny committee denied admission to both the candidates and subsequently lodged a complaint against the accused.
During investigation, three other accused including middlemen, impersonator were arraigned as accused.
“After thorough, investigation CBI filed two separate supplementary charge sheets pertaining to the selection of the candidates Dulawat and Kustwar before the Court of Special Judicial Magistrate, CBI Cases, Indore (MP) on February 3, 2018,” the CBI said, adding that the court merged both chargesheets and continued the trial.
The court found the five accused guilty and acquitted a middleman, it added.
