Bhopal: The Jabalpur Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday refused to hear the government's plea for a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the deadly Vyapam scam. The court will wait for the Supreme Court ruling on petitions seeking CBI probe in the multi-crore scam.
The apex court will deliver its verdict on July 9 on four petitions seeking a CBI probe in the high-profile scam. At least 48 people have died in this scam.
The next hearing on the government's plea will be on July 20.
Under relentless opposition attack, Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday filed a plea in the High Court for a CBI probe in the controversial Vyapam Scam.
Earlier, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said that while he was satisfied with the probe being conducted by the Special Task Force, he would write to the Madhya Pradesh High Court, recommending probe into Vyapam scam by the central agency.
The Chief Minister, however, justified his earlier stand of not giving in to the demand for a CBI probe, reiterating that the state government had no authority to directly order the same in case of an ongoing court-monitored investigation.
"Keeping into consideration the recent developments, it has now become important that the investigation be handed over to the CBI," said Chouhan.
Chouhan was under mounting pressure from opposition parties, particularly the Congress to order a CBI probe following the death of Arun Sharma, the dean of a Jabalpur medical college probing the scandal on Sunday in Delhi, a day after Akshay Singh, a journalist of the TV Today group on the Vyapam scam trail, mysteriously died minutes after he had interviewed the parents of a deceased girl accused.
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