Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, known as Vyapam, has cancelled degrees of 1,263 medical students found to have gained admissions in medical colleges by using unfair means.

They included 634 medicos, whose pleas to stay a decision by the MPPEB to cancel their degrees was rejected by the Supreme Court recently.

According to Vyapam director Bhaskar Lakshakar, all the 1,263 medicos had cleared the pre-medical tests (PMT) between 2008 and 2013.

“Special task force has completed investigation against 469 students. Investigation of another 62 students was done by medical college deans and 98 by different agencies for reasons of using unfair means,” a source said.

After losing the case in the high court against Vyapam, 144 students had moved the SC. The apex court upheld the decision of the high court and cancelled degrees of 634 students.

Thereafter, the admission of 629 students was also cancelled. The Vyapam scandal involving irregularities in sadmissions in different medical colleges in MP surfaced in June, 2013 when a racket that helped students cleared the PMTs was busted. As many as 52 people, directly or indirectly involved in the scam, have died.