{
 "no": 1,
 "id": "case-1",
 "sk": 20130701,
 "year": 2013,
 "date": "2013 to 2015 (surfaced)",
 "cat": "Exam integrity",
 "sev": "amber",
 "title": "Vyapam. The exam-and-jobs racket with a body count",
 "stamp": "Deaths unexplained. State shielded.",
 "human": {
  "v": "Thousands of rigged medical seats and government jobs; <b>40+</b> accused and witnesses reportedly dead in suspicious circumstances",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "A decade of poisoned admissions and recruitment in Madhya Pradesh",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "A vast racket in Madhya Pradesh's professional examinations board rigged medical-college admissions and government recruitment through impersonation and bribery, on an industrial scale.",
 "dodge": "As the net widened, an unusually long list of accused and witnesses turned up dead. The state government fought a CBI probe until the High Court forced one in 2015. Not one senior political figure was held to account for a fraud that ran for years under the state's own board, and the deaths were quietly filed away.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Shivraj Singh Chouhan",
   "r": "MP Chief Minister (BJP)"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The state said the arrests and the later CBI probe proved the system worked, and denied any cover-up.",
 "alleg": "The count and cause of the associated deaths are <em>contested and largely unproven</em>; several were officially recorded as natural causes or accidents.",
 "alt": "An independent probe from the first day, real protection for witnesses, and political ownership of a scam that festered for years.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "The Hindu: SC transfers Vyapam probe to CBI (2015)",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/vyapam-scam-sc-transfers-probe-to-cbi/article7402984.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250714150600/https://www.thehindu.com/news/vyapam-scam-sc-transfers-probe-to-cbi/article7402984.ece"
  },
  {
   "label": "The Hindu: spate of Vyapam-linked deaths (2015)",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Vyapam-scam-spate-of-deaths-raises-disturbing-questions/article60170269.ece",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20240712230855/https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/Vyapam-scam-spate-of-deaths-raises-disturbing-questions/article60170269.ece"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 40
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-1/"
}