The high-profile scam is getting murkier with each passing day, after a trainee sub-inspector, recruited through Vyapam, was found dead on Monday.
Ramakant Panda, now a constable in Tikamgarh – and a suspect in the multi-crore Vyapam scam – has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling fan at a special tourist police outpost.
According to a Times of India report, Panda had been questioned by the Special Task Force (STF) probing the scam a few months back after three constables were arrested from Chhatarpur for fixing the recruitment exams for constables.
In addition, he was also an alcoholic and saddled with mounting debt, as revealed by Tikamgarh SP Nimish Agarwal.
Yesterday, a trainee sub-inspector Anamika Kushwaha was found dead in a lake in Sagar’s district of Madhya Pradesh. She was recruited through Vyapam and was from the 2014 batch.
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