In 2015, the Supreme Court handed the Vyapam scam — a sprawling admission and recruitment fraud in Madhya Pradesh involving politicians, bu...

In 2015, the Supreme Court handed the Vyapam scam — a sprawling admission and recruitment fraud in Madhya Pradesh involving politicians, bureaucrats, and medical college seats — to the CBI, India's premier investigative agency. Eleven years later, former MLA Paras Saklecha had to go back to the Supreme Court to point out that nothing had actually happened. The Court has now issued notices to both the CBI and the Madhya Pradesh government, directing them to file affidavits detailing the investigation conducted and chargesheets filed. The next hearing is April 16, 2026 — giving the CBI about three weeks to summarize a decade of inaction. The Vyapam scam originally involved thousands of candidates paying bribes for government jobs and medical admissions, with over 40 witnesses and accused mysteriously dying during the investigation. It seems the CBI adopted a novel investigative strategy: wait long enough and the witnesses handle themselves.