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CM of MP involved in Vyapam scam?
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A whistle-blower who claims to know about it all, says Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is involved and that a cover-up operation is on. And there will be no CBI probe By A Correspondent
O Mahila Congress activists burning an effigy of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan demanding his resignation and CBI probe for his alleged involvement in Vyapam scam, in Bhopal on Monday.
ne more shocking disclosure is now available with regard to the Vyapam scam: a whistle-blower who has surfaced has alleged that Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is involved in the scam. "The CM wants me to be dead", he said. The whistle-blower does not know how exactly he is involved. He is extending support to those who are behind the scam. The CM is hiding facts. The chief minister has rushed to Delhi and met Home Minister Rajnath Singh who has now stopped
saying that the BJP is willing to use CBI. The chief minister is dead against calling the CBI. Why has the BJP started singing a new tune now? It had categorically stated it was for letting High Court or the Supreme Court take over the investigation. It is clear a cover-up operation is on. Behind the scam are politicians, officials, businessmen. In the scam, as many as 1,887 are arrested, FIR has been lodged against 140 persons.Meanwhile troubles mounted for Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after a woman trainee
‘LaMo mum on `1,000cr payment to D-Company’ By Asif Rizvi
Dawood aide Chhota Shakeel says the fugitive and former IPL boss has no threat now
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ormer IPL boss Lalit Modi keeps evading inquiry by several agencies on conditions of life threats in India. The threat givers themselves have clarified that Lalit Modi need not worry and is free to return to India. While LaMo is defending all possible allegations on him through micro-blogging site twitter, Facebook and his own website by providing evidences available with him in terms of documents, photographs and snap shots of his messaging conversations with several people who were allegedly provided hospitality by him during his tenure as IPL boss. LaMo is constantly answering
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questions of his followers on social media sites. However, this reporter too asked him through a private message and a tweet on twitter whether he had paid Rs.1,000 crore to Dawood Ibrahim and the reason
for paying him the huge sum. LaMo chose not to reply. Meanwhile in a recent telephonic interview to a TV channel, Dawood's closest aide Chhota Shakeel has clarified that LaMo did have threat from Dawood's D-company and it was because of LaMo not paying back Rs.1,000 crore that he owed the underworld gang. "We wanted to kill him (Lalit Modi). We also went to Bangkok to gun him down, but it was late by the time we reached there, he had left by then," said Chhota Shakeel to a reporter of a TV channel. "I cannot disclose what money he owed us but he had later paid the money hence we have nothing to do
with him now. He is free to return to India, " Shakeel added. In 2010, LaMo had left India and have never returned till date. On every occasion LaMo has told the investigating agencies his life was threatened in India and hence he cannot return. Enforcement Directorate (ED) have issued notices to LaMo several times to appear before the agency, but the reason remained the same. LaMo was provided police security on the basis of intelligence inputs. The inputs had suggested that he had threat to his life from Dawood's D-Company. However, Mumbai Police had written letters to ED, Mumbai and IT (Intelli-
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gence), New Delhi in 2010 that following the intelligence inputs from a central agency, LaMo was being provided with police protection. The security agencies after a review had concluded there was no threat to his life after November 2010. On June 17, fresh notices to LaMo was issued by ED and Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) about which the Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in a press conference in New Delhi had said that notices issued to the former IPL chief were quasi-judicial in nature, 'light blue' notice was issued against LaMo by the DRI at the behest of the ED. ADC on June 26 had published a report on how Lalit Modi has kept evading the probing agencies with his now familiar ‘threat’ line.