He was in Delhi to file a plea in the Supreme Court
The crime branch of Madhya Pradesh Police on Thursday arrested Vyapam Scam whistleblower Dr Anand Rai from a Delhi hotel, in connection with a case of alleged fraud.
Taking to Twitter soon after his arrest, Dr Rai asked the "workers and well-wishers" to reach Bhopal. He tagged senior Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Vivek Tankha in the tweet.
Dr Rai had recently 'exposed' the Madhya Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (MP-TET) paper leak.
His arrest came a day after the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Wednesday dismissed his plea seeking quashing of an FIR filed against him by Laxman Singh Markam, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
On March 27, Mr Markan had lodged a police complaint against state Congress chief spokesman KK Mishra and Dr Anand Rai, alleging that they had fabricated screenshots of his mobile and shared them on social media to implicate him in the P-TET exam paper leak.
Dr Rai, who was posted as Medical Officer at Indore's Hukumchand Hospital, has also been suspended with immediate effect by the hospital authorities for "dereliction of duty and undue absence from work."
Vivek Tankha, who is also his counsel in the case, today approached the Supreme Court seeking an early hearing of Dr Rai's petition against the Madhya Pradesh High Court order, which dismissed his plea for quashing of the FIR and vacated interim relief granted to him.
A bench headed by Chief Justice NV Ramana agreed to hear it on April 11.
He also told the Court the Madhya Pradesh police had issued notice to Dr Rai to appear and join the investigation today but he was arrested last night from Delhi, days after he moved a plea in the top Court.
The scam in Vyapam had come to light in 2011. The CBI had taken over the investigation into the mega recruitment and admission scandal after the top court order in 2015.