MP's Kamal Nath govt orders fresh probe into Vyapam scam

BHOPAL: Sticking to its pre-poll promise, the Kamal Nath government on Tuesday announced a fresh probe into the Vyapam scam that rocked the BJP government during Shivraj Singh Chouhan's tenure. Chouhan said the government was free to probe "all matters related to Vyapam, including his family."
CBI is already investigating the scam, and has filed several chargesheets, but the parallel probe by the Congress government will "reopen all old cases", hinted legal affairs minister P C Sharma. "The extent of Vyapam scam is much beyond the pre-medical test (that CBI is probing). It covers employment exams and recruitments that were left out in the previous investigations. The government will probe every aspect of the scam," he said.
"Vyapam scam is a scar for the state. The government has decided to probe it from the top to its roots. The investigation will cover everything and those involved in the scam will not be spared," Sharma told reporters outside the assembly on Tuesday.
Sharma did not disclose details of the committee members, its terms of reference or which complaints will be investigated. He indicated that former CM Digvijaya Singh's letter to chief minister Kamal Nath on Monday regarding the scam could be one of the pointers.
Digvijaya has urged the CM to bring to book "key conspirators of Vyapam scam" and demanded that students who have been implicated in the case be made state approvers.
The main accused are free while candidates, who appeared in the examinations, have been made accused to save the conspirators. They should be brought to justice,” Singh wrote.
It was former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who had first promised a fresh probe of Vyapam scam if Congress come to power in the 2018 assembly polls. The promise made its way to the Congress Vachan Patra.