Five men sentenced to 4 yrs in jail in Vyapam police recruitment cases

Bhopal: A special CBI court for Vyapam cases has sentenced five people to jail for scams in the police constable recruitment tests of 2012 and 2013. Three of them were students.Those convicted are candidates Satendra Singh Yadav and Dadhibal Singh, impersonator/solver Jitendra Kumar and Sunil Kumar and middleman Vijay Tamre alias Bala. They have all been sentenced to four years’ rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs 14,100 each. The FIR in the 2013 case was lodged at Kampoo police station in Gwalior on February 11, 2014, and the CBI took over the investigation on August 18, 2015, on Supreme Court orders.The first person to be convicted in this case was an impersonator, Madhuraj Singh. He was caught during the physical proficiency test, held on February 1, 2014, due to a photo mismatch. The police filed a chargesheet against Singh. The CBI later found that Singh did not participate in the written examination and filed a supplementary chargesheet on April 26, 2016, leading to Singh being sentenced to five years’ rigorous imprisonment. The CBI felt there were more suspects in the case and kept digging until it zeroed in on Satendra and Jitendra. The agency filed a second supplementary chargesheet on May 10, 2018, and the duo was convicted over five years .The 2012 recruitment case was first registered at Kotwali Morena police station, which was later taken up by CBI.The photograph and signature of Dadhibal on the admit card did not match with the one who showed for the test on September 30, 2012. Upon interrogation, impersonator Sunil Kumar admitted that he was appearing on behalf of Dadhibal Singh for Rs 3,000. The CBI filed a chargesheet on June 30, 2016, against Dadhibal and Sunil. Tamre was named in a supplementary chargesheet on July 12, 2019. The trial court has found all of them guilty.