Vyapam: 4 MBBS candidates among 10 given 3 years' rigorous imprisonment

BHOPAL: A special CBI court for Vyapam cases in Bhopal sentenced 10 persons, including four candidates, to three years’ rigorous imprisonment on Friday in a case of fraudulent MBBS admissions through PMT-2009, conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (Vyapam).

Those convicted include candidates Vikas Singh, Kapil Parte, Dilip Chouhan, and Praveen Kumar, five impersonators who appeared in the test on their behalf — Nagendra Kumar, Abdhesh Kumar, Ramesh Kumar, Pritesh Singh, and Shiv Karan Sahu — and middleman Satyendra Singh. The court imposed a total fine of Rs 16,000 on the convicts.

CBI had taken over the case on SC’s directions of July 9, 2015. The case was initially registered by Koh-e-Fiza police in Bhopal on Feb 12, 2015, based on a complaint alleging large-scale irregularities in MBBS admissions at Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, between 2006 and 2012. The Vyapam scam has engulfed over 3,000 accused, including students, officials, and middlemen, and resulted in over 100 convictions.