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Case file · MPPEB · surfaced 7 Jul 2013

Vyapam (terminal case): five convicted for 2013 constable test impersonation

Convicted

Confidence A — core facts anchored to primary documents (court records / official notices) cited below.

In one of the few exam-fraud cases in this register to reach judgment, a special CBI court in Bhopal on 29 September 2022 sentenced five men to seven years' rigorous imprisonment and Rs 10,000 fines each for rigging the 2013 MP police constable recruitment test: four had hired impersonators to write the exam, and one wrote it for another. 32 witnesses and 220 documents were examined. The case is part of the wider Vyapam scandal, exposed in July 2013, in which over 2,000 people had been arrested by mid-2015 and the Supreme Court moved all cases to the CBI in July 2015.

Examination
Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013
Conducting body
M.P. Professional Examination Board (Vyapam) (MPPEB)
Exam date
7 Apr 2013
Leak date (as documented)
—
Surfaced
7 Jul 2013
States
Madhya Pradesh
Candidates affected
not established
Leak vector
Solver network
State govt at the time
BJP
Last reviewed
11 Jun 2026

Accountability Gap Index

national average 0.97 / 7 · how this is scored →

2 / 7

  • ✓ FIR within 30 days
  • ✗ Charge sheet within 180 days
  • ✓ Any conviction
  • ✗ Exam cancelled & fully re-held
  • ✗ Fee refund documented
  • ✗ Official permanently removed
  • ✗ Reform gazette-notified

Each milestone scores one point only when the register holds a document for it. The gap is what the missing points describe.

How it surfaced

Who found it

Police tip-off

Indore police's July 2013 interception of an impersonation racket at PMT centres opened the Vyapam files; the constable recruitment test case travelled with the cluster to the STF and then the CBI.

The conducting body's first response

Denied it

MPPEB treated early complaints as isolated malpractice; after the 2013 arrests the STF and, from 2015, the CBI took over the full cluster of exams.

The docket

Every legal action on record, in order. Each row cites its document.

  1. 8 Jul 2013

    FIR registered · Indore Police / STF Madhya Pradesh

    STF Vyapam cases (2013)

    Vyapam impersonation racket exposed via the July 2013 Indore arrests; STF constituted 26.08.2013.

    per: Vyapam case: five get 7 years rigorous imprisonment for irregularities in 2013 cop recruitment test (The Times of India, 30 Sept 2022)

  2. 9 Jul 2015

    Case transferred · Supreme Court of India

    W.P.(C) 372/2015

    All Vyapam cases transferred to the CBI.

    per: Order transferring Vyapam cases to CBI (Supreme Court of India, 9 Jul 2015)

  3. 29 Sept 2022

    Conviction · Special Judge (CBI), Bhopal

    Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022

    Five convicted under IPC 419/420/467/468/471 and the MP Recognized Examinations Act; 7 years RI and Rs 10,000 fine each.

    per: Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case (Special Judge (CBI), Bhopal, 29 Sept 2022)

The investigation trail

Every SIT, committee and inquiry announced for this case — and whether its report ever became public.

  • STF/SIT, then CBI on Supreme Court order

    Formed 26 Aug 2013 · by Government of Madhya Pradesh / Supreme Court

    Report status: not made public · 4,672 days elapsed

    Folded into the CBI's Vyapam dockets; convictions have come exam-by-exam (11 convicted in one constable case in 2022).

Named individuals

Under this register's naming policy, a person appears here only if a tier-1 court or official document names them. The naming document is cited on each row.

Name Role at the time Legal status Naming document
Kamal Kishore Candidate, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 CONVICTED · 29 Sept 2022 Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case — Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022
Amar Singh Candidate, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 CONVICTED · 29 Sept 2022 Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case — Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022
Nagendra Singh Candidate, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 CONVICTED · 29 Sept 2022 Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case — Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022
Suresh Singh Candidate, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 CONVICTED · 29 Sept 2022 Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case — Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022
Ravi Kumar Rajput Impersonator (wrote the test for a candidate) CONVICTED · 29 Sept 2022 Judgment, MP Police Constable Recruitment Test 2013 impersonation case — Spl. Sessions (CBI) Bhopal, judgment dt. 29.09.2022

The human cost

33 deaths reported in connection with this case

Between 23 and 40 unnatural deaths of accused, witnesses and others connected to the Vyapam cluster were reported by 2015 (figure shown is the midpoint of reported ranges; unofficial counts run higher). The Supreme Court moved the death cases to the CBI in July 2015. Each is recorded as reported, not adjudicated.

Recorded as reported in the cited press record — not as adjudicated findings. This register lists these deaths because they are part of the documented consequence of examination failures, and for no other reason.

Sources on file

Status log

Every status this register has ever assigned to this case. Append-only.

7 Jul 2013 ALLEGED Allegations surfaced publicly.
8 Jul 2013 ALLEGED → FIR_REGISTERED Vyapam impersonation racket exposed via the July 2013 Indore arrests; STF constituted 26.08.2013.
29 Sept 2022 FIR_REGISTERED → CONVICTED Five convicted under IPC 419/420/467/468/471 and the MP Recognized Examinations Act; 7 years RI and Rs 10,000 fine each.

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