The Central Bureau of <g data-gr-id="23">Investgation</g>(CBI) is believed to have hit upon a trove of information relating to money trail in the Vyapam admissions and selection process during its first ever searches on the premises of suspects on Thursday.
Sources said the agency has recovered a note sheet in which some amounts have been scribbled, which are likely payments received from the suspected beneficiaries. They, however, said the analysis is still at primary stage and will take some time before any comment can be made about its veracity.
They said the agency has also found admit cards of the alleged beneficiaries of the alleged irregularities in the conduct of examination by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board also known as Vyapam. Several hard disks of computers recovered during the searches will be sent to CFSL for studying if any information is deleted from them and securing the obliterated data from them, they said.
The search operation, which comprised of over 100 officials, spanned across 40 locations led to the recovery of several incriminating information which include SIM cards believed to be used by the alleged middlemen in the scam, election cards of the beneficiary candidates, driving licenses, CDs among others.
The sources said this material will help them decipher the complex web of agents and mastermind which was at play in securing admission and appointment in government services through Vyapam, but cautioned that it will need further corroboration through legally admissible forensic evidence.
They said the agency is likely to start calling the suspects soon in connection with the case and will seek permission of the competent courts to examine those accused which are in prison. The searches in connection with alleged irregularities in Vyapam spanned across Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Lucknow and Allahabad among other cities, CBI sources said.
CBI seizes Indore crime branch cop’s passbook from accused’s house
Central Bureau of <g data-gr-id="50">Investgation</g> team that raided 40 premises across Madhya Pradesh in connection with Vyapam scam on Thursday has left Indore crime branch slightly worried and in a baffled situation. Agency insiders say their raid team has found and seized a bank passbook of an Indore crime branch's inspector from the residential premises of Vyapam scam accused Santosh Gupta in Jabalpur. Gupta is in jail since 2013. "CBI has confiscated Rs 3 lakh in cash and a bank passbook of female inspector of Indore crime branch from the spot. <g data-gr-id="55">Matter</g> is under investigation," said an official. State police <g data-gr-id="54">officials however</g> said that passbook was leftover by the crime branch sleuth during <g data-gr-id="53">raid</g> at Gupta house in 2013. She had also forgotten a pen drive and camera bag at the spot, said a police officer.