BHOPAL: Enforcement directorate (ED) has widened its probe chasing money laundering angle into the Vyapam scam and issued notices to five private medical colleges that allegedly gave admissions to nearly 200 students 'illegally' on seats left vacant by the impersonators in PMT2012-13. College authorities have been asked to submit relevant documents.
Sources informed some of the colleges have sought more time from the ED to submit the requisite papers. Agency has provisionally attached properties of one private college at Indore and is in a process to attach assets of other colleges found involved in the scam.
Its alleged that huge money was collected in cash from the students to whom these seats were 'sold'. The seats 'left vacant deliberately by 'scrorers' were allotted to students without intimating Vyapam and government.
Meanwhile Madhya Pradesh government is yet to comply with CBI's recommendation for action against 196 students, who were given admission by these six private medical colleges in stark defiance of set norms. On July 21, CBI's former SP M V Surti had written to the director of directorate of medical education (DME), elaborating these private medical colleges in the state admitted 'ineligible candidates' on the last day of counselling in stark defiance of norms.
'Pvt colleges gave false information'
ED has taken up the same case while state authorities sit on CBI's letter for action against the management of these colleges and 196 students admitted on the last day of the admission September 30, 2013.
"These colleges deliberately gave false information about admission of candidates and actual vacancies of state-quota seats in their colleges to DME and thereby managed to keep vacancies in their colleges, Then, they gave irregular admission to ineligible candidates on these vacant seats on the last date of admission.
Investigation has revealed the unholy alliance of the management of these private medical colleges of MP and the ineligible candidates for the purpose of giving/taking admission on vacant state quota seats," said CBI.
