New Delhi, Jul 5 (NDTV): The dean of a medical college in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh was found dead this morning at a hotel in Delhi where he had arrived yesterday.
The college Dr Arun Sharma headed was linked to the Vyapam recruitment scam which has engulfed top officials in Madhya Pradesh and is hinged on politicians and bureaucrats allegedly accepting kickbacks in exchange for allowing imposters to take the recruitment exam for government jobs and admission to colleges.
The dean who was found dead in Delhi today was chief of a committee investigating how that conspiracy was executed in the state-run medical college that he headed. He was assisting the Special Task Force that is probing Vyapam scam, by providing documents on fake medical entrance examinees.
Police sources said whiskey and some medicines were found near his bed. They said a post-mortem will be conducted after his son arrives in the capital.
Asked about reported links of Sharma with Vyapam scam, Joint Commissioner of Police (South West) Dipender Pathak said police is "covering all the angles" in its investigation.
Incidentally, Sharma was the second Dean of the medical college to die under mysterious circumstances in the last one year.
The burnt down body of another Dean of the same medical college Dr DK Sakalle, who was reportedly looking into fake admissions in the medical college in the wake of MPPEB (Vyapam) scam, was found in his home on July 4 last year.
A journalist working for a news channel had mysteriously died yesterday after having interviewed the parents of a girl who had been found dead near railway tracks after her name figured in the Vyapam scam.
At least 26 accused and witnesses have died so far in the Vyapam scam, a massive admission and recruitment racket involving several bureaucrats and politicians, and the opposition Congress has been demanding a CBI probe into the matter.
Sharma, who had checked into the hotel in Dwarka yesterday, was scheduled to fly to Agartala this morning for an official inspection of a medical college there, police said.
With PTI Inputs