Vyapam PIL lawyer falls sick; family suspects food poisoning attempt

The chairman of Madhya Pradesh high court Bar Association, advocate Adarsh Munni Trivedi, who had in the past represented petitioners seeking a Central Bureau of Investigation probe in Vyapam scam, today could not appear before the high court in Jabalpur as he took ill and his family suspected an attempt at food poisoning.

Trivedi on Wednesday was going to appear in another public interest litigation about trigged admissions to private medical colleges.

"My father fell sick in early hours on Tuesday after consuming mangode (a fried snack made of lentil and gram) that someone had placed on the table in his office. We keep snacks in our office and my father ate a piece thinking that a family member or a client had brought them," said Ashish, his elder son.

Ashish, himself a lawyer, said the family suspected that someone put mangode with the intention of harming his father because advocate Trivedi was the counsel of former Member of Legislative Assembly Paras Saklecha who has moved the high court demanding a CBI inquiry in the Dental Medical Admission Test for the private medical colleges.