Probe committee dissolved after controversial statement by a member

     Bilaspur, August 07, 2015: After a controversial statement by one of the members of the probe team, Vice Chancellor of Pandit Sundarlal Sharma Open University, Bilaspur, Bansh Gopal Sharma today dissolved the two-member committee.

      After questions were raised about the impartiality of the probe team, the Vice Chancellor dissolved that committee, University sources said.

     A two-member probe team today visited the house of the Chhattisgarh School Education Minister Kedar Kashyap and took the statement of his wife Shanti after allegation that someone else had appeared in place of Shanti Kashyap in her MA English Final examination.

     However, talking to media after the statement, one of the members of the probe team gave the controversial statement.

     Member B A Mishra said they have completed the probe and Shanti was like his daughter, which created doubt among many of the impartiality of the probe committee.

     Also when the probe team was taking the statement of Shanti Kashyap at the residence of the Education Minister, the minister himself was present at his quarter.

     At the Lohandiguda Government Higher Secondary School of Bastar District, in the final MA English examination on August 4 last, instead of Shanti Kashyap, someone else had appeared in the exam.

     When officials reached the Centre and started probing the identity of the girl, who was appearing for Shanti, the girl slipped out of the room silently without revealing her original identity.

       Lohandiguda Tehsildar had also reached the School and initiated action on the matter.