The CBI has registered 153 FIRs in connection with Vyapam scam, but it has not yet filed the final report in any of it.

Ramesh Shivhare, considered one of the main accused in the multi-crore Vyapam scam, was arrested by a joint team of the CBI and the UP Special Task Force (STF) in Kanpur today.

Confirming Shivhare's arrest, UP Director General of Police Javeed Ahmed told reporters that he was wanted in at least seven cases in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) scam, also known as Vyapam.

The CBI will produce Shivhare, who ran a coaching centre and was charged with providing solvers in the MPPEB examinations, in a court later today and request for his transit remand. He will then be taken to Bhopal.

It is alleged that functionaries of the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) colluded to rig the examinations in favour of chosen candidates for money. Nearly 50 people associated with the massive admission and recruitment scam have died mysteriously in the last years.

The CBI has registered 153 FIRs in connection with the scam, but it has not yet filed the final report in any of it. The first set of FIRs was registered by the agency on July 15, 2015. Besides, the enormity of the scam spreading across the country is also posing a challenge for the agency.

The CBI had taken over the investigation in Vyapam cases on the direction of the Supreme Court, which had expressed concern at the mysterious deaths of the people linked to the Vyapam scam.

Last month, the CBI told a special court that pending forensic reports have delayed the filing of the final reports by the investigating agency in the Vyapam scam. The agency said it requires the help from Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) on various counts, including document analysis, finger prints and digital footprints.

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