Concerned over the death of a TV journalist covering the Vyapam scam, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh spoke to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and asked him to conduct a thorough investigation into the death.
Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Arun Jaitley on Sunday mourned the demise of journalist Akshay Singh, terming him a competent professional, adding that a fair inquiry into his death is essential.
In another gruesome incident and another ugly twist to Vyapam scam, the dean of Jabalpur medical college Arun Sharma was found dead in a Delhi hotel today.
Sister of TV journalist Akshay Singh, who died while covering the Vyapam scam, demanded the examination of the viscera sample of her brother to be examined outside Madhya Pradesh, preferably in Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).
Describing the death of a TV journalist covering the Vyapam recruitment scam as 'shocking', Trinamool Congress today said truth must come out and supported the demand of sending the viscera samples to AIIMS in Delhi for examination.
The mysterious death of two persons probing the Vyapam scam in as many days has added yet another sordid twist to the scandal and set off strident calls for a CBI inquiry. Even before the news of sudden death of an investigative reporter of a TV channel soon after he had interviewed the parents of a deceased girl accused of involvement in the scam could sink in, came the report of the body of the Dean of a Jabalpur medical college being found in a Delhi hotel, sending shockwaves and triggering outrage. Arun Sharma, Dean of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, who was said to be probing irregularities in admissions to his college in connection with the scam, was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a Dwarka hotel. An almost empty bottle of alcohol and vomit was found in the room. Forensic evidence has been collected and his body sent for post mortem. What fuelled speculations of possible foul play was the fact that Sharma is the second Dean of the college ..