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Bhopal: A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team today conducted a raid on the private Chirayu Medical College and Hospital on Friday and reportedly looked into their admission records.

The raid was conducted in context of a case in which private medical colleges including Chirayu College were charged with selling off government quota medical seats at very high costs – Rs 30-40 lakh for undergraduate and Rs 1.0-1.5 crore for postgraduate seats, sources said.

The investigation officer of the case, additional superintendent of police of CBI, Ajayab Singh, accompanied the raiding team. Sources said the team looked into various documents related to admissions conducted in the college in year 2011.

The case was originally filed in 2014 at Jhansi Road police station, Gwalior in 2014 by Vyapam whistleblower Ashish Chaturvedi.

It became more sensational as one of the main links and accused in the case Pramod Sharma of Rinku was found dead in April 2013 at Jhansi under mysterious circumstances. Chaturvedi has been alleging that Sharma was murdered.

The case was handed over to CBI last year along with host of other cases. However, the interesting aspect of this case is that private medical colleges and particularly Chirayu College was named in the FIR.

The FIR was based on a sting conducted by Chaturvedi in 2011 that sought to bring to light a nexus between government officials and private medical colleges in selling government quota seats.

“My complaint was investigated by Jhansi Road police station and was converted into FIR after accusations related to Chirayu College matched out. However, the investigations hit a road block when Pramod Sharma, a crucial link was found dead,” Chaturvedi told NewsBits.in.

The whistleblower again alleged that Sharma was bumped off and the deceased’s family was also convinced of this, but the police failed to investigate the matter properly.

He said that if the CBI investigation is proper, a parallel scam bigger than Vyapam involving private medical colleges would come to light.