2 jailed for 7 yrs in Vyapam police exam scam

 2 jailed for 7 yrs in Vyapam police exam scam

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TIMES NEWS NETWORK

01.02.2022

Bhopal: A CBI court in Bhopal has convicted two persons and sentenced them to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment in a Vyapam scam in a 2013 police constable recruitment test.

The convicts have been identified as Satya Narayan Yadav, a candidate, and Laxmi Narayan Yadav, who impersonated him in the exam.

CBI had registered a case on September 2, 2015, in compliance with a Supreme Court order and taken over investigation of the case that had been registered the previous year at Jehangirabad police station in Bhopal.

The duo was among those accused of being part of a conspiracy of cheating, forgery and impersonation  in the police constable recruitment test-II in 2013, conducted by Vyapam.

It was alleged that Satya Narayan had used unfair means to pass the test, and the state police filed a chargesheet against him in the court of Bhopal chief judicial magistrate. Further investigation in the case was kept open. During the CBI investigation, Laxmi Narayan was identified as Satya’s impersonator in the examination.

A forensic report said that Laxmi Narayan’s thumb impression matched with the thumbprint on the OMR sheet that Satya was supposed to have filled.

CBI then filed a supplementary chargesheet against Satya and Laxmi Narayan on July 1, 2016, in a special court, which eventually found them guilty.