Another dean dies in Vyapam scam

Arun Sharma of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College, Jabalpur, was the second dean to die under mysterious circumstances

In another gruesome incident, and another ugly twist to Vyapam scam, the dean of Jabalpur medical college Arun Sharma was found dead in a Delhi hotel today.

Sharma was dean of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur and was the second dean to die under mysterious circumstances. His predecessor, D K Sakalle, who was probing admissions of candidates who planted imposters to crack the Pre-Medical Test (PMT), had been found burnt at his residence.

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On Saturday, a journalist who was investigating the unnatural death of a girl, Narmada Damor, also died under mysterious circumstances. Damor was found dead after her name figured in Vyapam scam,

The journalist was working on a leading Delhi-based news channel.

According to the police, Sharma's body was found at a hotel in south-west Delhi's Dwarka by hotel staff who opened the room using a duplicate key after he did not answer repeated knocks on the door. “I do not have details,” Shivraj Singh Chouhan, state chief minister said here this morning.

Congress spokesperson K K Mishra alleged that he had spoken to family members of Sharma and they had confirmed that he was not ill. “Sharma had submitted a report pertaining to Vyapam scam to the investigating agencies,” Mishra alleged.