BJP seeks FIR against Digvijay Singh on fake proof'

Bhopal: The CBI has found electronic evidence given by Congress leader Digvijay Singh and two whistleblowers in the Vyapam scam to be fake, Madhya Pradesh home minister Bhupendra Singh said.

Mr Singh and the two others had given the evidence to support their allegation that MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was linked to the medical entrance test scandal.

The MP home minister and his ministerial colleagues Narottam Mishra and Viswas Sarang on Thursday gave a memorandum to the Central Bureau of Investigation, seeking an FIR against the Congress leader and whistleblowers Prashant Pandey and Anand Rai for producing “fake” evidence in court.

The memorandum said the three people tried to “falsely implicate” the chief minister in the Vyapam case.

“The allegations were levelled by Digvijay Singh and two others,” he said.

Bhupendra Singh said the CBI in its report stated that the content of a pen drive given to court alleging the chief minister’s link with the scam was found to be fake.

The charges that the hard disk of the Vyapam accused’s computer had been tampered with save the chief minister was baseless, Bhupendra Singh added. The CBI’s probe report was based on forensic study of the electronic documents produced before court by Digvijay Singh and the two others. The Congress leader said he “welcomes” the CBI’s move to summon him.