Vyapam scam: BJP suspends leader named in CBI’s FIR

July 17, 2015 03:44 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 01:53 am IST - Bhopal

Madhya Pradesh Backward Class Commission member and BJP leader Gulab Singh Kirar, who was named as an accused along with his son in the Vyapam scam, has been suspended by the party. The CBI had registered a fresh FIR against him.

“We have suspended him from the party’s primary membership yesterday,” State BJP president Nandkumar Singh Chouhan told PTI .

Mr. Kirar had been untraceable since the scam was exposed and his name figured in it during the STF’s probe.

The probe agency (Gwalior STF) had registered a case against Mr. Kirar and his son about eight months back.

The Congress had on Thursday called a day-long Statewide bandh called over the Vyapam scam and stepped up its demand for resignation of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

The CBI has named eight persons in the FIR registered on July 15 in a case related to Pre-PG examination of 2011, which includes Mr. Kirar and his son Shakti Singh Kirar.

The central probe agency has registered five FIRs in connection with the scandal and also launched a probe into the mysterious deaths of five persons associated with the scam.

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