BHOPAL: Another police officer, a city superintendent of police (CSP) posted at Gwalior, has come under scanner of Special Task Force (STF) for his alleged role in the scam in pre-medical test conducted by Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB). Mahipal Yadav, is the second CSP from Gwalior after Rakshyapal Yadav to be named in the scam.

Yadav's name cropped up during interrogation of Dr Deepak Tiwari, who was arrested by a Special Investigation team (SIT) of Gwalior probing MPPEB scam. During his interrogation, Tiwari is learnt to have told STF that he recommended three candidates to MPPEB officials, whose PMT-2009 results were to be manipulated and one of them was Monica Yadav, daughter of CSP Mahipal Yadav. The other two candidates were Arun Yadav and Jitendra Kumar.

Gwalior SIT had declared cash award of Rs 15,000 on information leading to Yadav's arrest in the multi-crore scam. A resident of Gwalior, Tiwari is accused of using unfair means to help over 100 candidates clear exams for post-graduate medical courses as well.

Police officials claim Tiwari will be questioned for his alleged role in PMT and pre-PG entrance exams conducted since 2006 as he was running the scam racket much before Indore's Jagdish Sagar.

Tiwari also operates a private hospital in Gwalior, said sources. His father-in-law Hari Singh Yadav retired as deputy inspector general (DIG) recently and was trying to contest assembly elections last year on a BJP ticket.

Scam kingpin Dr Jagdish Sagar who took nearly 10 years to complete his MBBS course, and cleared his pre-PG entrance test in first attempt in 2004 was Deepak Tiwari's closest rival in the examination racket.

Initially, Tiwari and Sagar had teamed up to enact the biggest education fraud in the country and police claim the duo may have been fudging results much before 2004 with help of PEB's system analyst Nitin Mohindra. They struggled to clear their own MBBS, but 'helped' hundreds cheat their way in. Gwalior CSP Rakshyapal Yadav was arrested in the PMT-2012 scam in February this year. He allegedly managed to secure admission for his son Ajeet Singh Yadav through fraudulent means, sources said.

Sources said he allegedly got admission in government medical college through Sudhir Rai, a close aide of Jagdish Sagar, the alleged kingpin of the PMT scam. Rai was arrested a few months ago.

Unlike other students, who were arrested along with their fathers, Ajeet got an anticipatory bail from the court. Modus operandi employed by Ajeet and 13 other students was to leave the optical mark reader (OMR) sheets vacant. These sheets were later filled by the MPPEB staff, sources said.

