IndiaToday.in | Posted by Sonalee Borgohain
New Delhi, November 23, 2017 | UPDATED 17:57 IST
Last month, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan was given a clean chit by the CBI in the scam, forcing the Congress to call the agency 'Compromised Bureau of Investigation'.
The multi-crore scam in Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal (Vyapam) or Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board broke out in 2013. (File photo | PTI)The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) today filed its chargesheet against 592 persons, including four former officials in what came to be known as the Vyapam scam, which alluded to a massive admission and recruitment racket in Madhya Pradesh.
The four former Vyapam officials named in the CBI chargesheet are Pankaj Trivedi (the then director of Vyapam), Nitin Mohindra (the then Sr Systems Analyst), Ajay Kumar Sen (the then Deputy Systems Analyst) and CK Mishra (the then programmer).
The other names in the CBI chargesheet are Ajay Goenka, chairman of the Chirayu Medical College, SN Vijaywargiya of the People's Medical College, Suresh Singh Bhadauria from the Medical College in Bhopal, and JN Chowkse of the LN Medical College.
Last month, Chief Minister 
Shivraj Singh Chouhan was given a clean chit by the CBI in the scam, forcing the Congress to call the agency 'Compromised Bureau of Investigation'.
The multi-crore scam in Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal (Vyapam) or Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board broke out in 2013, wherein candidates bribed officials, rigged exams by deploying imposters to write their answersheets.
The CBI took over investigation following a Supreme Court order on July 9, 2015.
WHAT IS VYAPAM SCAM?
The organised rackets employed students from across the country to allegedly impersonate medical students and appear in recruitment exams since 2008. Middlemen manipulated seating arrangements and forged answersheets in exchange of lakhs of rupees.
The arrest of 20 people in Indore blew the lid off the massive scam, which quickly snowballed into the biggest political crisis for Chouhan and led to more than 2,000 arrests, including those of politicians, bureaucrats, and middlemen.
Over 40 persons, including witnesses, accused, and alleged beneficiaries, have died so far in mysterious circumstances ever since the scam broke out. These included a son of the then Governor. Some died in freak accidents or of mysterious illnesses.
The racketeers managed to get roll numbers in such a manner that a beneficiary candidate was seated right behind his solver candidate to facilitate cheating.
CBI investigations revealed that these solver candidates were among medical college students or bright medical college aspirants taking coaching in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra.