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Jul 11 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Foreign journos slug it out over Vyapam Bhopal: TIMES NEWS NETWORK Vyapam scam has drawn global attention with journalists from across the world trooping into Madhya Pradesh to cover the scam. Scores of foreign journalists from New York Times, Guardian, Washington Post and Al Jazeera are visiting Vyapam hot spots of Jhabua, Bhind, Jabalpur and Morena, where several accused died under mysterious circumstances. International media has referred to Vyapam scam as “one of India's biggest ever corruption scandals“. Spiralling deaths of Vyapam accused have drawn eyeballs and several people have been sharing and liking these stories on web editions of global publications. Many reporters first reached Bhopal while some of them landed directly to places like Ujjain to dig out details of about Namrata Damor, an accused who died under mysterious circumstances in 2012.Many others are frantically trying to get details on how to reach the tribal belt of Jhabua or Bhind in Chambal, which are not connected by flights. Two days ago, The New York Times wrote, “Nobody died today. At least not as we went to press.“ “This is newsworthy for millions of Indians who are following the unraveling of a system of corruption in a state government examination board -widely known by its Hindi acronym, Vyapam -that conducts tests for college admissions and jobs“, the story said.“It is not easy for a corruption case to mystify Indians, but this one, in which politicians and officials in Madhya Pradesh are accused of taking bribes in return for helping candidates get high scores, is extraordinary“' the NYT story said. July 5 issue of Washington Post said, “Nobody knows exactly when or why witnesses and smalltime crooks caught up in one of India's biggest-ever corruption scandals began dying under mysterious circumstances. But in the past two years, that's what's happened to more than two dozen people implicated in a $1 billion testrigging scheme.“ “Even by standards in India, where corruption is routine, the scale of the scam in the central state of MP is mindboggling“, it said. July 9 issue of Guardian reported the development when Vyapam probe was handed over to CBI. “India's highest court has ordered the nation's most powerful investigation agency to investigate a massive college admission and government job recruitment scandal linked to dozens of suspicious deaths“, the story said. International Business Times reported the matter on Thursday when Vyapam probe was handed over to the CBI. Click To Enlarge II. http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31804&articlexml=Vyapam-I-T-tracks-fund-transfers-11072015012005 Jul 11 2015 : The Times of India (Mumbai) Vyapam: I-T tracks fund transfers Josy Joseph New Delhi: TNN Oil Baron Was Intermediary Investigators who raided Madhya Pradesh mining baron Dr Sudhir Sharma's companies in 2013 stumbled upon documents regarding huge cash transactions between promoters of a few educational institutions and Sharma, but they couldn't find a reason for it. As the Vyapam scam unravels amid mysterious deaths, and Sharma turns out to be a key figure in the scandal, it has come to light that he was an intermediary between educational institutions and the then Madhya Pradesh education minister Laxmikant Sharma, who is now in jail in connection with the scam. On Friday , TOI had reported that income tax authorities had found evidence that several political leaders, such as RSS leader Suresh Soni, former president of Madhya Pradesh BJP Prabhat Jha, Congress MLA Veer Singh Bhuria and many civil servant had taken various favours including cash and flight tickets from the businessman. In their report prepared in 2013, investigators wondered why a person running institutions for technical education would make cash payments on a regular basis to the mining baron, a major portion of which was passed on to the minister. “Whether he is giving money himself or collecting money from others and passing it on needs to be investigated,“ the report said. “Due to multiplicity of issues involved and paucity of time, no enquiry from this angle could be made. It is therefore suggested that the assessment officer may make deep enquiries on this issue, ascertain the ultimate beneficiary , seek their explanation and take further necessary action accordingly,“ it added. The investigators found that in just seven months, between September 2011 and March 2012, owners of two educational institutions handed over Rs 78.50 lakh in cash to Sharma.“The reason why these persons are giving cash to Sudhir Sharma is not clear but it prima facie represents their undisclosed income,“ the I-T report said. It pointed out that one of the persons making frequent cash payments to Sharma was Sanjeev Agrawal, owner of Sagar group of institutions. Another person who made such payments was the owner of Truba group of educational institutions, the report said. “If we see the immediate utilization of funds received from them, it is seen that on three occasions, cash was received from Sanjeev Agrawal and immediately handed over to Mohar Singh, who is attached as a personal staff with minister Laxmikant Sharma,“ the report said. On January 2, 2012, Agrawal handed over Rs 5 lakh, and on the same day Sharma handed over Rs 5 lakh to Mohar Singh. On January 10, 2012, Rs 15 lakh was received by Sharma from Agrawal, and Rs 10 lakh was handed over to Mohar Singh. Netas resign on moral grounds, says Gaur Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh home minister Babulal Gaur on Friday attacked CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the Vyapam scam once again when he said that politicians resign on moral grounds when scams of such magnitude rock the country. “He believes in Bhagwad Gita and wants to imbibe it in politics. It is clearly written that one who understands spirituality can be moral. I am not targeting anyone, but people are free to draw conclusions,“ he told TOI, in an apparent reference to Chouhan. TNN Click To Enlarge -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
