The Gwalior police on Wednesday filed an FIR under Section 507 against Gandhi Medical College professor I.D. Chaurasia for criminal intimidation of Vyapam whistleblower Ashish Chaturvedi after he sought information on the illegal appointments of medical education officers under the Right to Information Act.
The copy of the FIR, lodged by the Jhansi Road police station in Gwalior, which The Hindu accessed, states that Mr. Chaturvedi received a threatening phone call from I.D. Chaurasia, on Wednesday warning him of dire consequences for seeking information on illegal appointments of medical education officials in various medical colleges of Madhya Pradesh.