The death of Jabalpur Medical College Dean Arun Sharma is not related to Vyapam scam, the MP government has said. Dr Arun Sharma, who had allegedly recently submitted 200 documents to the Special Task Force probing the Vyapam scam, was found dead in a hotel room in New Delhi on Sunday morning.


Dr Sharma had succeeded Dr D K Sakalle at the Jabalpur college after Dr Sakalle died mysteriously a year ago. Police reopened that case over the weekend, after Dr Sudhir Tiwari, president of Indian Medial Association, Jabalpur, alleged earlier in the week that Sakalle had been murdered.


Sharma was found dead in his bed by staff at Hotel Uppal near Indira Gandhi International Airport, who entered using a duplicate key after Sharma did not respond to repeated knocks.


An almost empty bottle of alcohol and vomit was found in the room. Forensic evidence has been collected and his body sent for post mortem.

Asked about reported links of Sharma with Vyapam scam, Joint Commissioner of Police (South West) Dipender Pathak said police is "covering all the angles" in its investigation.

Incidentally, Sharma was the second Dean of the medical college to have died under mysterious circumstances in the last one year. D K Sakalle, who was inquiring into admissions of candidates for whom proxies had allegedly appeared in the pre-medical test, had been found burnt at his residence.

"Dr Sharma was found dead at his room in a hotel in Delhi. We are shocked at the death, He was a very close to Dr Sakalle," Indian Medical Association Jabalpur district president Sudhir Tiwari told PTI.

Tiwari claimed Sharma had wept at the funeral pyre of Sakalle, claiming the latter had not committed suicide, as concluded by police after investigation.