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Point<br />

Out<br />

DHANRAJ YADAV<br />

(Former OSD to Governor of MP)<br />

Y<br />

adav<br />

and BSP leader Radha Raman Ahirwar have<br />

been arrested in connection with two recruitment<br />

examination scams in the state on April 14, 2014.<br />

While Yadav was arrested in connection with the<br />

police examination recruitment exam of 2012, Ahirwar was<br />

booked for rigging teachers' recruitment examination conducted<br />

by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (PEB)<br />

in 2011. Yadav is charged with misusing his official position<br />

and recommending many candidates for recruitment as police<br />

constable to PEB's Exam Controller Dr Pankaj Trivedi and Chief<br />

System Analyst, Nitin Mohindra. Names of candidates referred<br />

by Yadav were found from the data sheet on the hard disk on<br />

Mahindra's computer. Ahirwar, ex-BSP president of Vidisha<br />

district got selected some candidates in contractual teachers<br />

eligibility test grade-II through Yadav and Trivedi. Both Yadav<br />

and Ahirwar reportedly hail from Mau district of Uttar Pradesh.<br />

MPPEB SCAM COVER STORY<br />

SUDHIR SHARMA<br />

(Teacher-turned mining baron)<br />

T<br />

he<br />

teacher-turned businessman had a meteoric rise<br />

in the last decade. From Saraswati Shishu Mandir,<br />

where he worked as a teacher, Sharma became<br />

a lecturer in an engineering college in Vidisha,<br />

where he came in contact with Laxmikant Sharma, the former<br />

minister. Then he came on deputation to the Rajiv Gandhi<br />

Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya in Bhopal. He is a key accused<br />

in police constable recruitment exam conducted by MPPEB.<br />

After Sharma failed to turn up for questioning before STF,<br />

the probe agency had announced Rs 5,000 reward on his<br />

arrest. Besides, police constable recruitment scam, Sharma<br />

is also co-accused in contract teacher recruitment exam, also<br />

conducted by MPPEB. He is on the run and has applied for<br />

anticipatory bail that has been rejected by the courts.<br />

24<br />

july 2014

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