Vyapam scam: SC to take a call on CBI probe today

July 09, 2015 08:47

The Supreme Court will today take up pleas for a CBI probe in the Vyapam scam.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had declared on Wednesday that he would also back such a request in the Apex court but ruled out resignation from the post.

All eyes are on the Supreme Court which is scheduled to take up a batch of petitions for ordering a CBI probe into the multi-crore scandal after the Madhya Pradesh high court deferred hearing on a state government's plea for a probe by the central agency.

Saying that the Apex court would hear similar petitions today, the high court, where the state government filed a plea on Tuesday for a CBI probe, deferred the hearing till July 20.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in Delhi, dismissed demands for his resignation saying the Congress and other parties have been demanding it right from the day he became chief minister more than 10 years ago.

He maintained that none in the party top brass had asked him to plead for a CBI probe.

The massive admission and recruitment scam that has seriously dented the state's BJP government's public image took another murky turn with the post mortem report of a female MBBS student, a suspect in the case whose body was found beside railway tracks in Ujjain in 2012, maintaining it was a "homicidal" death caused by "violent asphyxia".

As the report came into the public domain for the first time at the height of the controversy over a string of mysterious deaths of people associated with Vyapam, including five over the past week, the Madhya Pradesh police decided to reopen the case and launch fresh investigation.

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