After CBI search in Vyapam scam, IT raids at 9 premises of hospital-medical college major in Bhopal

Hours after CBI team raided premises of a private medical college and hospital in connection with Vyapam scam at Bhopal on Friday, the Income Tax department has started searches at nine premises of the same group across the Madhya Pradesh capital.

Hours after central bureau of investigation (CBI) team raided premises of a private medical college and hospital in connection with Vyapam scam at Bhopal on Friday, the Income Tax department has started searches at nine premises of the same group across the Madhya Pradesh capital.

Teams of 100 IT department personnel escorted by police started searching the nine premises owned by the group, including the hospital and medical college in Bairagarh, the hospital in old city, three manufacturing units (among them the paper unit) and the residential premises of the group’s head in Professors Colony.

The search which was going on till the filing of this news report is likely to continue on Sunday also, IT department sources told Hindustan Times.

Several incriminating documents pertaining to undeclared income have been seized by the IT department team, but actual sum of undisclosed assets is likely to become clear by Sunday.

According to IT department sources, the search followed specific inputs by the CBI team to IT department about presence of major volume of cash at the premises that were raided by the premier investigation agency probing the multi-crore Vyapam scam.

On Friday, the CBI search at five premises related to the group had led to several incriminating documents, cash, jewellery and other assets worth around Rs 2 crores.

The search pertained to alleged fraudulent allotment of MBBS seats in the college in 2011.

The case, which was first registered at the Jhansi road police station, accused a student of MBBS course of PMT-2010 of a Gwalior college, in conspiracy with others, of appearing in Pre-Medical Test (PMT) 2011 again and during counselling getting allotment of a government quota seat in the medical college in Bhopal.

Later on, with the connivance of the private college authorities, he allegedly vacated the seat on the last day of admission schedule after getting huge amount of money so that the seat could be filled by the college authorities in a non-transparent manner and could be allotted to some ineligible candidate by-passing the merit list.

There were 63 government quota seats in the private college, which were to be filled through PMT examinations conducted by the state government in 2011. Out of 63 seats, 47 were vacated on the last day of the admission, which were later allegedly filled by the college management itself.