Initially, the apex court appeared reluctant to hear the matter as it asked Sibal to approach the Madhya Pradesh High Court to deal with the issue.
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Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Maninder Singh, appearing for CBI, said that the transfer of more than 185 Vyapam scam cases from SIT to CBI will take time and the state investigating agency be allowed to file charge sheets in the cases in which the probe is complete.
But police has closed the case previous year saying she took her own life based on a second autopsy report and the opinion of a medico-legal expert who studied photographs and circumstantial evidence before ruling out the possibility of murder.
The CBI is also planning to set up a separate office in Bhopal exclusively to probe the Vyapam scam.
It would be appropriate if the CBI investigated the matter, counsel Prashant Bhushan appearing for petitioner Anand Rai told the court adding that it would make no sense if the admission scam involving 42 percent state-quota seats was to be investigated separately.
The third case pertains to alleged irregularities during an examination conducted by Vyapam in 2010 in which the state police had named four accused.
As many as 48 people – allegedly connected with the examination and recruitment in Vyapam or the Madhya Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal – have died in recent years.
A fresh case has been registered in mysterious death of MBBS student Namrata Damor in 2012, whose parents were interviewed by Akshay Singh who died recently, minutes after he left the Damor household.
A 40-member CBI team under supervision of Joint Director R.P. Aggarwal began probing the Vyapam scam earlier this week on the directive of the Supreme Court.
However, later a team of doctors from the Civil Hospital in Ujjain carried out the postmortem on her body and said that she had died due to “violent asphyxia as a result of smothering”, indicating a homicide.
The police, however, said there was nothing to suggest that Namrata was murdered.
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The CBI had already lodged five FIRs on Wednesday and with today?s five FIRs, the number had gone up to 10 thus far. At least 40 people linked in some way to the scam have also died, either in mysterious circumstances or have committed suicide.
