dehradun after the name of a bjp legislators son cropped up in the scst scholarship scam the states saffron camp was shaken since this is the first time that a sitting legislators family has been embroiled in a scamaccording to the state police the special investigation team sit has registered ten firs against 16 colleges in dehradun and 40 colleges in the haridwar district in dehradun the sit is scrutinizing the scst scholarship records of the institutes belonging to the bjp legislators familythe petitioner of scst scholarship in the high court social activist ravinder jugran alleged that the scam is worth over rs 500 crore and the network of institutes spread to seven other states including delhi haryana punjab and upthe high court is monitoring the case and progress of the sits probe i am sure many big guns are involved in the scam because it was a nexus of institutesofficialsbanks under the patronage of the political classthe sits investigation has revealed that the scst scholarship irregularities in the institute belonging to the bjp legislator had taken place in 201112 speaking with toi sit chief tc manjunath said we have records of the institute receiving scst scholarships and an investigation is underway i cannot reveal anything morebjp state president ajay bhatt said the case is being investigated by the sit which has been given free hand to probe the allegations the matter is sub judice and i wont comment furtherthe party line is very clear in this case anyone whose name figures in the scst scholarship scam will have to face music irrespective of their background or ideology bhatt added