Shanti Kashyap meets probe team at Education Minister’s residence

     Raipur, August 07, 2015: 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.

     Vice Chancellor of Pandit Sundarlal Sharma Open University, Bilaspur, Bansh Gopal Sharma had constituted a probe team to look into the allegation that someone else 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 a 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.

     Later talking to media Kedar Kashyap said his wife had never filled the form for MA Final examination so there was no question she would appear in the examination.

     All these allegations were nothing but politically motivated, he also claimed.

     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.