From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Vyapam Scam Whistleblower Dr Anand Rai has moved the Supreme Court against Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order refusing to quash the FIR registered against him and vacating the interim order of protection granted to him in a case related to a Facebook post.
The Bench decided to list Rai’s special leave petition in the very next hearing on April 11
Senior advocate Vivek Tankha on Friday mentioned before a Bench headed by CJI N V Ramana that Rai was arrested Thursday night after the police force came to Delhi and took him to Madhya Pradesh. He said teh arrest was made despite he had agreed to appear before police on Friday.
The Petitioner has argued that since he is the Whistleblower of the infamous Vyapam scam related to alleged malpractices in entrance tests and recruitments in Madhya Pradesh and so the state goernment has had an axe to grind against him.
The present case arises out of an FIR which was lodged on the basis of a Facebook Post in which allegations of paper leak were made against Laxman Singh Markam, deputy secretary to the Chief Minister.
The FIR against the petitioner was lodged on Markam’s complaint under Sections 419, 469, 470, 500, 504, 120B IPC and Sections 3 (1) (q), 3 (1) (d), and Section 3(2) of the SC/ST Atrocities Act of 1989.
According to Rai, a bare perusal of the said Facebook Post would reveal that by way of the said post, he had merely questioned as to how the examination and answer key to the said examination had leaked on Markam’s mobile phone. At the best, the matter is a case of alleged defamation of an individual, he submitted.
