A police constable who had been questioned in the Vyapam examination scam was found dead in Tikamgarh in Madhya Pradesh.

The death toll of people connected to the case has crossed 45 now, with a total of four deaths being reported in the last four days.

Anamika Kushwaha, a trainee cop recruited through Vyapam, was found dead in a lake adjacent to the Police Training Academy in Sagar district headquarters on Monday, and it is yet to be ascertained whether it was a case of murder or suicide.

Arun Sharma, Dean of a medical college in Jabalpur, was found dead at a hotel in Delhi the day before, on Sunday. He was assisting the probe into the Vyapam scam and had provided documents on fake medical entrance examinees in the state-run medical college he was heading.

Akshay Singh, an Aaj Tak journalist, died under mysterious circumstances on Saturday July 4 while he was investigating the scam. He had just interviewed the parents of Namrata Damor, a medical student whose body had been found on railway tracks in Ujjain district in 2012. In 2014, Namrata's name appeared in the list of student suspects in the scam, leading to suspicions of foul play.

The scam dealing with the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) or MP Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal, also known as Vyapam, has taken spotlight on almost a daily basis due to the number of deaths in the case.