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The Vyqapam scam broke out in 2013 after the Indore police arrested 20 people for impersonating candidates in the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, popularly known as Vyapam (Vyavsayik Pariksha Mandal). Vyapam held competitive exams for recruitment to government jobs and for admissions to state-run medical colleges. The scam involved recruitment of undeserving candidates who allegedly bribed politicians and officials to get high ranks in the exams. It got murkier when a number of people-whistleblowers, witnesses and alleged beneficiaries-died under mysterious circumstances during the course of the investigations which revealed large-scale fraud committed by multiple rackets for years. In February 2017, the Supreme Court cancelled the degrees of 634 doctors.

 

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In December 2012, Delhi witnessed a horrific crime that sparked anger and outrage across the country. A 23-year-old paramedic student, referred to as Nirbhaya, was gang-raped on a moving bus and assaulted by six persons before being dumped on the road. Nirbhaya did not survive the attack. Changes in the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2013 to lay down stringent punishment for sexual offences against women followed. And that’s how the law came to popularly referred to as ‘The Nirbhaya Act’. Subsequently, the Nirbhaya Fund was created to be utilized for projects meant to improve safety of women in public places.

One of the six accused in the Nirbhaya case, Ram Singh, allegedly committed suicide in the Tihar Jail. A juvenile accused was released from a reformation home after serving a three-year term. A Delhi court issued death warrants all four convicts in the case and ordered they be hanged on Feb 1.

 

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