Additional SP of Central Bureau of Investigation, probing the infamous Vyapam scam, was found unconcious on Thursday at platform no. 4 of Jhansi railway station.
SP Bindu Shekhar Jha was on his way to Gwalior aboard Malwa Express.
Taking the Vyapam scam probe forward, CBI on Wednesday carried out searches at nearly 40 places in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh including the premises of alleged mastermind Jagdish Sagar and Dhanraj Yadav, a former OSD to Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram Naresh Yadav,
The searches in connection with alleged irregularities in the conduct of examinations by MP Professional Examination Board, popularly known as Vyapam, spanned across Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Rewa, Jabalpur, Lucknow and Allahabad among other cities, CBI sources said.
They said the searches are not case specific and were aimed at unravelling the larger conspiracy of alleged corrupt practices in the conduct of the examinations.
The residential premises of Dhanraj Yadav, former OSD to MP Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, in Lucknow, alleged mastermind Jagdish Sagar, former MP Minister Laxmikant Sharma and other suspects including Bharat Mishra, Vinod Bhandari, Sudhir Sharma, Om Prakash Sharma, Nitin Mahindra among others are being searched, they said.
The sources said the office of MP Professional Examination Board is also being searched by the CBI team.
The agency has registered over 105 cases in connection with various aspects of Vyapam scam.
The Supreme Court has directed CBI to take over all Vyapam scam matters irrespective of their present status.
“Whatever is the stage of the case, you (CBI) will have to take over all the matters,” a bench headed by Chief Justice H L Dattu had said, while allaying the apprehension of CBI that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) and Special Task Force (STF) of state police may not cooperate with it if it takes over the cases which were in trial stage.
