Questioning the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) clean chit to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on allegations of evidence-tampering in the Vyapam scam, the Congress said it would file a private complaint against the CBI in the matter.
Congress lawyers Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha addressed a press conference on Wednesday and called the CBI a “compromised bureau of investigation”.
“We will file a private complaint as there are processes of law and we will follow them. The investigator has to be now investigated. We are very carefully watching which officials are doing what,” said the former Law Minister Kapil Sibal, accusing the CBI of working under political pressure.
On Tuesday, the CBI had filed a charge sheet at a special CBI court in Bhopal, where a clean chit was given to Mr. Chouhan in the allegation of tampering the hard disk in the computer of the main accused in the Vyapam scam.
The investigative agency based its report on the findings of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) Hyderabad.
The Vyapam case refers to irregularities in admissions to professional courses like the MBBS entrance tests, among others conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board.
In 2015, former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh had alleged that the hard disk of the computer used by the principal accused Nitin Mahindra was tampered with by a technocrat, Prashant Pandey, who became a whistleblower.
