SC notice to MP Governor : Home Secretary meets Home Minister Rajnath Singh

The Governor is named in an FIR and is accused of recommending names of five candidates to be appointed as forest guards.

Both Yadav and the Centre have been given a time period of four weeks to respond to the Supreme Court notice.

Congress leader and noted lawyer Kapil sibal was arguing for the petitioner seeking removal of Ram Naresh Yadav. 

"MP High Court was not right in quashing FIR against Governor as Vyapam CEO had recorded statement against Governor for his role," Sibal told the Supreme Court.

The apex court  took up a bunch of petitions that demand a CBI investigation into the  scam and the alarming number of deaths of people linked to it.

It also issued a notice to Centre, Madhya Pradesh governor and the state government on a plea seeking  removal of the governor Ram Naresh Yadav, said to be one of the accused i the multi-core scam. 

The Governor and his son were accused last year of accepting bribes in a First Information Report by the Special Task Force of the state police that is investigating the Vyapam scam. 

 

The High Court ruled that the Governor could not be investigated while in office, but said the police could record his statement.

In March, the Governor's son, Shailesh Yadav, who had not been questioned by investigators, was found dead in Lucknow.

Since news of the scam broke in 2013, more than 45 people-all linked to it in one way or the other, have died premature deaths, several of them under mysterious circumstances.

The parade of deaths that apparently defies explanations has led to a countrywide outcry bolstering the opposition demand for a CBI probe into the who affair, which it describes as a sinister game.

The Congress has said that these details necessitate an investigation into the Governor's alleged role in the scam as the scam involved widespread bribery, forgery and impersonation in arranging government jobs and admission to premier educational institutes.