By IANS
Bhopal : A police case has been registered against Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh assembly Jamuna Devi for allegedly using fraud to get her daughter admitted to a medical course and getting her a lecturer’s job at a medical college.
The case was registered Wednesday on a complaint filed by Ram Singh Marawi of Harsud in Khandwa district six months ago.
In his complaint, he had alleged that Jamuna Devi, a former MP, got her daughter Hemlata admission in the MBBS course at the Indore Medical College under the Scheduled Tribe quota on the basis of a forged certificate in 1968. He said the certificate was used to get her a lecturer’s job in the same college in 1982.
He said in the complaint: “Jamuna Devi (a Bhil) had married Gulab Chand Verma (a goldsmith by caste). Goldsmiths by virtue of their caste come under the general category and children are known by the caste credentials of their father, not mother. But Jamuna Devi preferred to manage a caste certificate certifying that her daughter was a Bhil (Scheduled Tribe).
“She not only used her position as a Member of Parliament at that time but also took advantage of the position of her brother, Narain Singh Sengar, who was deputy superintendent of police in Jhabua then. It was he who issued the caste certificate and Jamuna Devi wrote letters to the dean asserting that her daughter be given admission in MBBS because she belonged to the Scheduled Tribe – Bhil.”
Santosh Bhadoria, in charge of Sanyogitaganj police station in Indore where the report has been lodged, told IANS that Jamuna Devi, former deputy chief minister, had used her letterhead as MP in writing to the dean of the medical college for admission to Hemlata.
“It is with the help of the caste certificate that Hemlata got admission in the postgraduate course and then the job of lecturer in the same college,” said Bhadoria.
The matter was investigated by the police and the probe report submitted to Indore Police Superintendent Anshuman Singh Yadav. On the basis of the report, the police filed a First Information Report at the Sanyogitaganj police station of Indore.