Guilty in Vyapam scam will not be spared: Chouhan

None of the guilty in the Vyapam scam will be spared, Chief Minister of  Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Sunday said even as he rejected Congress’s demand for his resignation over the matter. “I am the first person who ordered registration of a First Information Report (FIR) in 2013 after noticing irregularities in Vyapam. Seeing the complicated nature of the case, we formed the Special Task Force (STF) to probe it. It is working under the High Court- appointed Special Investigation Team (SIT).

“In my response in the Assembly two years back, I had admitted there were irregularities in a few hundred out of the lakhs of recruitment done by Vyapam. That is being probed. We will not leave anybody who is guilty. No matter how big he is,” he told PTI in an email interview. Stating that among those in custody for their involvement in Vyapam scam are some politicians, political workers and bureaucrats big and small, he insisted “it proves that we are not trying to hide it (scam)”.