New Delhi : The Supreme Court is expected to take up two separate petitions — one filed by former chief minister Digvijay Singh and the other by whistle blowers — for seeking an apex court monitored CBI investigation into the sprawling Vyapam scam.
“We have lost faith in the high court monitored probe being conducted by the Special Investigation Team through the special task force. They have not even uncovered five percent of the wrong doing, and already 43 persons have died, and more than 2000 are languishing in jails,” he said.
Briefing reporters at the party headquarters, Singh, who is the main petitioner in the case, charged that the scandal is becoming murkier by the day with witnesses and accused persons dying under mysterious circumstances.
”Our information is that at least 43 persons — accused and witness — have died, but the state government claims the number is 24. Even if we accept the state government figure, this is a case that should be investigated by the CBI under the supervision of the apex court,” he added.
Underscoring the gravity of the offences, Singh disclosed that the chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has accepted on the floor of the state legislature than there have been irregularities in the appointment of more than a 1000 persons.
“We should look at this confession in the light of the fact that the former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala is in jail for the irregularities in the appointment of just 130 teachers. Why is no action being taken against the chief minister,” he added.
He alleged that the recruitment-cum-admission scam was of gigantic proportions, as more than 130,000 persons had been recruited by the state government over a period of time. Singh also charged that a nexus of top officials of the police, civil services and judiciary, as also BJP and RSS leaders, was behind this scam.
”I am sorry to say that my state Madhya Pradesh has been the birth place of these widespread scams that have rocked the All India entrance tests for medical colleges, railway recruitment board etc,” he added.
Singh, who has also been questioned by the SIT, said that it has expressed its “helplessness” in the matter given its magnitude. ”The state does not have the manpower and technical resources to probe the cases in different states and unearth all the technical manipulations in the scam,” he added.
