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TWO MORE ‘UNNATURAL’ VYAPAM DEATHS Gold: `26,340 Silver: `36,350 US Dollar: `63.42 Temperature: 310C/270C Humidity: 70%
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The Vyapam deaths have not stopped. A TV journalist who was all set to expose the scam and a dean of a Jabalpur Medical College died unnaturally on Saturday and Sunday. A journalist and the dean of a Dr. Arun Sharma Akshay Singh medical college who are said to have decided to bring to light details of the deadly scam Vyapam, died ‘unnaturally’ in the last two days. Yesterday morning a dean of a Jabalpur Medical College Dr. Arun Sharma said to be probing fake examinees in the Vyapam scam was found dead under mysterious circumstances at a hotel in Delhi's south west Dwaraka. Akshay Singh who was working with TV Today group died on Saturday after he interviewed the parents of a girl who was found dead after she figured in the massive admission and recruitment scandal in Madhya Pradesh (Vyapam). At least over 45 accused and witnesses and others are reported to have died in the Vyapam scam — an admission and recruitment racket allegedly involving several politicians, bureaucrats and aspirants.
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Youth Congress activists staged a protest at the headquarters ofthe MP Professional Examination Board, demanding the CBI Probe of deaths of the people linked with the Vyapam scam in Bhopal on Sunday.
EW DELHI: The Dean of a Jabalpur Medical College, said to be probing fake examinees in the Vyapam scam, was found dead in a Delhi hotel yesterday, adding yet another murky twist to the scandal. The death of Dr Arun Sharma, Dean of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, came to light a day after an investigative journalist with a leading Delhi-based news channel died under mysterious circumstances soon after he had interviewed parents of a girl found dead after her name figured in the massive admission and re-
cruitment scandal. Police said Sharma's body was found at a hotel in southwest Delhi's Dwarka by the staff who opened the room using a duplicate key after he did not answer repeated knocks on the door. 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. 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.
Ten colleges in Navi Mumbai without varsity affiliation By Prashant Hamine Close on the heels of the controversy surrounding the recognition of the degree of Minister for Higher and Technical Education Vinod Tawde, the Directorate of Technical Education last week issued a list of 10 colleges mostly from Navi Mumbai as having no University affiliations. In its notice the DTE has stated that the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has placed these colleges under
No Extension of Approval or No Admission Category and do not posses the University Affiliation to their courses for the Academic Year 2015-16. The DTE and AICTE move follows the Supreme Court ruling in the special leave petition filed on the Orissa High Court judgement in a case of May 2014. The DTE notice further states that the names of the colleges are included in the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) pursuant to the interim order of the Bom-
bay High Court and subject to further orders of the court. The list of colleges who have been declared of not having University affiliation include – Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Prathisthan College of Engineering, Sion; MGM's Institute of Management Studies and Research, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai; Smt Indira Gandhi College of Engineering, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai; MGM's College of Engineering and Technology, Kamothe, Navi Mumbai; Mahatma Education Society's
Institute of Information Technology, Engineering, Media Studies, New Panvel; SIES Graduate School of Technology, Navi Mumbai; Lokmanya Tilak Jankalyan Shikshan Sanstha's Lokmanya Tilak College of Engineering, Koparkhairane, Navi Mumbai; Hyderabad (Sindh) National Collegiate Board; Watumal Institute of Electronics and Computer Technology, Worli, Mumbai; SIES's Graduate College of Continued on pg 2 «
Incidentally, Sharma was the second Dean of the medical college to have died under mysterious circumstances in the last one year. D K Sakalle, who was inquiring into admissions of candidates for whom proxies had allegedly appeared in the PreMedical Test, had been found burnt at his residence. "Dr Sharma was found dead at his room in a hotel in Delhi. We are shocked at the death, He was a very close to Dr Sakalle," Indian Medical Association (IMA) Jabalpur district president Sudhir Tiwari told PTI. Tiwari claimed Sharma had wept at the funeral pyre
of Sakalle, claiming the latter had not committed suicide, as concluded by police after investigation. "I suspect that Sharma too might have been killed," Tiwari said in Jabalpur, and said he had learnt two days back that the Dean had submitted a report relating to the Vyapam scam to the Special Task Force (STF) probing it.
Journalist's death An investigative journalist with a TV channel Akshay Singh had died in Madhya Pradesh's Jhabua district on Continued on pg 22 «
Woman stripped naked in Jammu and Kashmir by 5 men, accused film act
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DHAMPUR: A woman was stripped naked and harassed by a group of five men in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district earlier this week. The accused even shot a video when they were stripping the woman, the police has said. "A woman was stripped in full public view by five people in Jaganoo area of Udhampur. The accused recorded the incident on a mobile phone camera... it
has gone viral on Whatsapp," Udhampur District Commissioner said. The woman was reportedly riding pillion on a motorcycle with a male friend when the five men allegedly intercepted the bike and started misbehaving with her. When she resisted, the accused overpowered her and stripped her. In the video, the woman Continued on pg 22 «