Earlier Anand Rai filed an affidavit claiming CM offered to stop his transfer provided he stops campaign against him
Indore : In a climbdown, the Madhya Pradesh government on Friday told the High Court that it has cancelled the transfer orders of Vyapam whistleblower Anand Rai and his doctor-wife Gauri to Dhar and posted them back in the city. During a hearing on the petition challenging the transfers, Advocate General Ravishchandra Agrawal, through an oral submission, informed the division bench of Justice P K Jaiswal and Justice D K Paliwal about the orders of transfer cancellation.
However, the state government dismissed the allegations of Anand Rai, a government doctor, that state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been mounting pressure on him to stop the campaign against him (Chouhan) and his family about the Vyapam and DMAT scam in return for cancelling the couple’s transfers.
The petition was filed by Anand Rai who had also filed an affidavit on August 11 claiming that Chouhan had offered and assured to cancel the transfers if he withdrew the campaign against him (CM) and his family in the two scams.
Agrawal also told the HC that the government will pay the couple’s two-month’s pending salary soon. The affidavit also said “the meeting dated August 11, 2015 between Rai and the Chief Minister does not have any bearing on the present controversy.” Rai (38) had stated in an affidavit that he was summoned by the MP CM to his official residence on August 11 through a common friend, PTI reports.
After the Vyapam scam was exposed, Rai’s attachment as a Medical Officer to a Government Training Institute in Indore was cancelled and he was posted back to his original place in neighbouring Dhar district hospital. Vyapam is an admission and recruitment racket that helped candidates clear Pre-Medical Test (PMT) using unfair means while Dental and Medical Admission Test (DMAT) scam is associated with admission in private dental and medical colleges in Madhya Pradesh. His wife was initially transferred from Indore to Ujjain and later she was again shifted to Dhar. Rai told court that he raised flag against Madhya Pradesh ministers, including the Chief Minister.
