BHOPAL : The CBI filed the 18th FIR in police constable recruitment test-2013 against 64 accused including Vyapam officials including the then OSD to the minister for technical and higher education, OP Shukla on Thursday.
The FIR was the filed in the series of action by the agency on the directions of the Supreme Court for taking over the investigation in Vyapam scam from state-run STF. It was registered under sections 120B r/w 34, 201, 409, 417, 420, 467, 468, 471 of IPC; Section 65, 66 of IT Act; Section 13(2) r/w 13(1)(d),15 of PC Act,1988 and Section ¾ of the M.P. Recognised Examination Act, against 64 accused.
They include then Controller of Examinations, Dr Pankaj Trivedi; then OSD to the Minister for Technical Education OP Shukla; the then OSD, Raj Bhavan Dhanraj Yadav; then System Analyst Ajay Sen, and then Senior System Analyst Nitin Mahindra and several candidates and racketeers. Many of the accused have been arrested by the STF and charge-sheets were filed against them.