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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 />
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july 2014