Gangaram Prajapati, key aide of Sagar arrested

INDORE: A suspended employee of state health department, Gangaram Prajapati, said to be the key man connected to Dr Jagdish Sagar, kingpin of the recently busted MPPMT impersonation racket, was arrested by Indore crime branch sleuths from Madhu Milan crossing here on Monday. Prajapati, who was on the run ever since the MPPMT racket was busted, was arrested as he disembarked from a Shirdi-Indore bus, said additional SP Dilip Soni.
Recently, the Madhya Pradesh police had announced a reward of Rs 10,000 on information leading to the arrest of Gangaram. Crime branch teams had also raided Gangaram's hideouts in Khandwa, Khargone and Jhabua districts of MP, besides places in Gujarat.
During initial questioning, Gangaram is reported to have admitted about working with Sagar for many years. He used to scout for aspiring medicos who were willing to pay a sum of over Rs 20 lakh for a seat in medical colleges.
Employed as a compounder with the state health department since 1993, Gangaram was placed under suspension since 2009 after he refused to join duties at the Anjad public health centre (PHC) in Barwani district. He also own seven acres of land in his native Barwani district. Meanwhile, the two operators of the second MPPMT racket, Sudhir Rai and Santosh Gupta, who were produced before a local court on Monday were remanded to police custody till August 10.
The police remand of the duo was slated to end on Monday, but the court accepted the police plea to extend their remand. The link person of the second racket Tarang Sharma, however, was sent to judicial custody for 15 days by the court.
In a significant development, meanwhile, a girl Surabhi who secured 538th rank in MPPMT 2013 result along with her parents met the ASP (Crime) Dilip Soni on Monday and demanded that police make public, the list of those candidates in the MPPMT who managed to secure good ranks through the two impersonation racket busted by the police recently.
"Students like me have been preparing hard for two years and then managed to secure 538th rank in the MPPMT, while many others who benefitted from the two rackets managed to get better ranks by using fraudulent means. This is a slap on the face of hardworking and meritorious students," Surabhi a resident of Sudama Nagar locality of Indore demanded.
Surabhi and her parents Umesh and Nirmala Agrawal also questioned before media persons, as to whose pressure was preventing the police and crime branch from releasing the name of candidates benefited by the rackets. Releasing their names will certainly lead to scrapping of their candidature, which will boost prospect of meritorious candidates top get admission in top medical colleges. "If the list is not released, meritorious candidates like me could even think of extreme steps like suicide," Surabhi said.