The Madhya Pradesh Employees Selection Board is a self-financed, autonomous incorporated body of State Govt.

After the scam was unearthed, 2,000 people were arrested, including the state's former education minister, Laxmikant Sharma, and Vyapam exam controller Pankaj Trivedi.

In 1981, the Pre Engineering Board was constituted, and the agencies were merged by order on 17 April 1982 into the Professional Examination Board, which was assigned the responsibility of conducting entrance tests for admission to various colleges in the state.

That July, Indore Police arrested 20 people who took the medical entrance examination on behalf of others.

In 2015, the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation, which accused 3,500 people in 154 proceedings.