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the probe initially. On November 5th, 2014, Madhya Pradesh High Court also rejected the Congress leader Deegvijay Singh’s petition for CBI probe and instead ordered setting up of a special investigation team to act as a watchdog for the court.
The SIT is a three-member team chaired by Justice ChancresBhutan, a retired Judge of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. During 2014-15, the scam was in the supervision of SIT.
Key Arrests:
By June 2015, more than 2000 people had been arrested in connection with the scam.
Politicians and bureaucrats:
• Laxmikant Sharma, ex-Education Minister (M.P)
BJP leader Laxmikant Sharma was the in charge of MPPEB in his capacity as the state’s Technical Education Minister. He was initially arrested for his involvement in the contractual teachers recruitment scam, based on the info recovered from the Excel sheet maintained by Nit inMahindra.
Later, he was also booked for irregularities in the constable’s recruitment examinations; according to the STF, he recommended names of at least 16 candidates for recruitment as constables. He resigned from BJP in June 2014, after being sent to four days police remand. Sharma claimed innocence, placing the blame on his officer OP Shula, and pointed out that his own daughter had failed PMT twice.

• O. P. Shula
He was posted as Officer on Special Duty with then Technical Education Minister Laxmikant Sharma. Soon after the investigations gained momentum, he went underground and surrendered three months after the investigation team released a look out notice for him. He allegedly tookb84 lakhs Rupees from the candidates for clearing the medical entrance test.

• Sushi Sharma
A mining businessman, Sushi Sharma was once an Officer on Special Duty of the education minister Laxmikant Sharma. He was involved in police constable recruitment examination scam of 2012. After absconding initially, he surrendered to the STF in December 2013.The STF questioned him twice, but did not arrest him. After STF found prosecutable evidence against him, he again went missing. The STF announced a cash reward of rupees 5000 for information on him. He surrendered before the court in 2014, and was arrested by the STF.