A 74-year-old prisoner at the Gwalior jail has just returned from Delhi where he was taken for treatment for prostate cancer. Yogendra Chand Upreti could soon have a double role as both an accused and a star witness in a scam that is embedded in Madhya Pradesh but forged ahead this weekend into a national shocker with the death of a journalist who was reporting on it and started frothing at the mouth during an interview. The journalist became the 35th person linked to the scam to have died in recent years; the opposition has seized the media attention and national outrage to claim that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, serving his third term, must be removed to allow an impartial inquiry.
