CBI files fresh chargesheet against MP Minister

NEW DELHI: The CBI today filed a fresh chargesheet against then Madhya Pradesh minister Laxmikant Sharma, his OSD and 85 others for alleged irregularities in the recruitment of Grade-II contractual teachers through Vyapam in 2012, officials said.

The chargesheet, filed in the Bhopal Special court, has named then controller of Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board – also known as Vyapam – Pankaj Trivedi; then principal system analyst in Vyapam Nitin Mohindra, 72 candidates, two other Vyapam officials and 11 middlemen, including Sharma, they said.

O P Shukla, the OSD of Sharma, then technical and higher education minister in the BJP Government in the State, has also been named as an accused in the chargesheet, the officials said.

It is alleged that Mohindra and Trivedi helped in inflating the marks of the candidates appearing for the examination for the appointment of Grade-II contractual teachers, the CBI officials said. (AGENCIES)