BHOPAL: Police have begun an investigation into Vyapam-led admissions to National Law Institute University (NLIU), Bhopal, between 2000 and 2007, taking up a complaint forwarded by the CBI headquarters to the Madhya Pradesh government five years ago.
Under scanner are students from some highly influential families, many of whom now hold key positions in the central and state administrative services, it is alleged.
The complainant, RTI activist Ajay Dubey, had sent his complaint to CBI in 2015, which was forwarded to the MP government in 2016, say sources. On Wednesday, he was summoned by MP Nagar police station to come with documents regarding his complaint.
Dubey alleges a scam in NLIU admissions between 2000 and 2007, when MP Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) earlier known as Vyapam, which had hogged global headlines due to a massive recruitment scam had handled admissions.
“The scam that affected the careers of thousands of candidates of PMT, pre-PG (medical), contractual teachers, constables and even forest guards might have touched admissions to NLIU since they were also done through Vyapam,” Dubey alleges.
MPPEB had conducted admission tests for NLIU since its inception in 1997 till 2008 when the prestigious institute came under Common Law Admission Test (CLAT). Dubey alleges that Vyapam had removed the names of those on the merit list between 2000 and 2007 so that children of high-profile people wouldn’t be identified.
The CBI has filed 155 chargesheets against 3,500 people in the Vyapam scam after it took over investigation from MPSTF in July 2015. Hundreds of complaints that the agency received in these years were referred back to the MP government, among them the one on NILU.