The chairman of Madhya Pradesh High Court Bar Association, advocate Adarsh Munni Trivedi, who had in the past represented petitioners seeking a CBI probe in Vyapam scam, today could not appear before the High Court here as he took ill and his family suspected an attempt at food poisoning.                                        

Trivedi today was going to appear in another PIL about rigged admissions to private medical colleges.

"My father fell sick in early hours yesterday after consuming mangode (a fried snack made of lentil and gram) that someone had placed on the table in his office. We keep snacks in our office and my father ate a piece thinking that a family member or a client had brought them," said Ashish, his elder son.