Digvijaya Singh faces action for anti-Shivraj Vyapam drive: CBI

NEW DELHI: The CBI informed the Supreme Court on Wednesday that Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and others would face action soon for running a high-pitched campaign in Vyapam scam against Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan based on falsehood and forged documents.

Singh had moved a writ petition before the SC in 2015, which was argued by top lawyer-leaders of Congress, seeking forensic examination of the documents, including the hard disk recovered from the office of MP Professional Examination Board or Vyapam.The CBI had informed the court that the documents and the seized documents were sent to Central Forensic Science Laboratory , Hyderabad, for scrutiny and that the re port suggested no tampering.

On Wednesday , the CBI in its affidavit through advocate R Balasubramanian told the SC in response to a petition by Vyapam `whistle-blower' Prashant Pandey that “the present petitioner alleges tampering of one of the computer hard disks seized by Indore Police on July 18, 2013“.

“The prayer in Pandey's petition and Singh's petition are almost identical. The SC in Singh's petition had transferred probe into Vyapam scam and also cases related to deaths, which were allegedly linked to Vyapam, to the CBI,“ the agency said. It said it had sent both the hard disk and the pen drive given by Pandey to the CFSL, Hyderabad, for examination.“The investigation conducted by the CBI had also reached the conclusion that the allegations of tampering of the seized hard disk were false and that some of these persons making such allegations were found to be indulging in creation of false digital records in the pen drive and on that basis, making false complaints,“ the CBI said.

“The CBI would be taking necessary stepsactions against the culprits in accordance with law, for making such false allegations and creation of false documents,“ the agency said. Singh in February 2015 had claimed to be in possession of a pen drive that purportedly contained exchange of messages between Chouhan, his wife and some of the Vyapam scam accused.