Vyapam-linked deaths controversy result of MP police goof-up

Bhopal | Sunday | 15th October, 2017

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Two eye-witnesses had also confirmed it, they said.He is not alone. "This was the modus operandi adopted by middlemen. BHOPAL: The controversy over the Vyapam scam-linked deaths erupted as Madhya Pradesh police had included the names of dead persons as accused in its FIRs registered in the cases pertaining to the admission and recruitment scam, the CBI has found.The CBI was entrusted to look into the alleged conspiracy to eliminate suspects booked in the admissions and recruitment scam in Madhya Pradesh. The probe has found that there was nothing suspicious about 23 deaths in which 15 preliminary enquiries were registered by the CBI, they said.All the 15 preliminary enquiries have been closed by the agency as nothing suspicious was found in these deaths.In one case, the death of Namrata Damor, the agency had registered an FIR which is still under investigation, the sources said. The trigger behind fatal move was found to be failed love affair and failure in studies, the sources quoting police files said.One of these cases involved the death of a journalist from a leading Hindi news channel.The agency has closed the preliminary enquiry after it found that the he had died of cardiac arrest and there was no sign of any poisoning, the sources said, claiming that exhaustive questioning of his colleagues was done.The agency has concluded that either these deaths took place from natural causes, accidents or suicides before the scam surfaced or they took place from genuine reasons after the scam was reported.One of the alleged victims had died on October 23, 2010, in an motor cycle accident..