MBBS Exam Scam: Varsity To Check Answer Sheets Of Last 5 Years' Exams

MBBS Exam Scam: Varsity To Check Answer Sheets Of Last 5 Years' Exams 

Written By Divyani Paul 

Published On 18 Feb 2025 4:00 PM  

Haryana- In the reported MBBS exam scam from Pandit Bhagwat Dayal Sharma University of Health Sciences (UHS), Rohtak, authorities have now decided to to-check-answer-sheets-of-last-5-years-exams-

In this regard, an order has recently been issued by the VC stating that “As the inquiry committee suggested in its report on February 13, another committee is constituted to scrutinise the answer sheets and records of previous batches who can also be involved in this scam so that further necessary action as per the findings and rules may be taken.” 

To oversee this task, a three-member committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of PGIMS Medical Superintendent Dr Kundan Mittal. Dr Sukhdev Chandla, Professor of Physiology at PGIMS and Dr Arun Kumar, Professor of Pedodontics at PGIDS, Rohtak are the other members of the committee. According to TribuneIndia media news report, the sources on this stated that "The committee has been constituted by UHSR Vice-Chancellor Dr HK Aggarwal who wants to ensure action against officials and students involved in the MBBS annual or supplementary examination scandal”. 

This initiative aims to highlight any tampering of answer sheets or irregularities in the examination process during these examinations. Last year in 2024, a major scam of MBBS exam question papers came to light at Pandit BD Sharma UHS, where university staff charged huge sums of money from students to help them pass a particular subject by allowing them to rewrite their answer sheets using erasable ink pens and reference from the textbook 

On this, Medical Dialogues has earlier reported that the district administration has asked the institute to expedite its investigation and submit a report at the earliest for prompt action on the matter.

Ragging in Karnataka medical college; Kashmiri MBBS student ‘beaten’, given death threats by seniors Second-year student Hamim at Al-Ameen Medical College made to sing, dance, perform 'Al-Ameen' salute, beaten in hostel room. JKSA wants accused suspended.

Ragging in Karnataka medical college; Kashmiri MBBS student ‘beaten’, given death threats by seniors Second-year student Hamim at Al-Ameen Medical College made to sing, dance, perform 'Al-Ameen' salute, beaten in hostel room. JKSA wants accused suspended.

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NEW DELHI: 19.02.2025

Amid multiple reports of ragging incidents in colleges across the country, another case has now surfaced in Karnataka wherein a Kashmiri MBBS student has been allegedly ‘brutally’ ragged and assaulted at a medical college. Second-year student Hamim was beaten up by senior students of the 2019 batch at Al-Ameen Medical College in Bijapur, according to the Jammu Kashmir Students Association (JKSA). 

Calling it a ‘deeply disturbing incident’, the student body has sought state chief minister Siddaramaiah’s intervention to ensure strict action against the accused students and to safeguard the rights and safety of students, especially non-locals. It also demanded expulsion of those found guilty from the college.

According to the national convenor of JKSA, who spoke to the victim, the ragging had been going on for months, over a probable clash of power between the senior students and the MBBS student who is the captain of the cricket team of 2023 batch. 

Power clash, death threats 

The student belonging to Anantnag was beaten, humiliated, and severely ragged by seniors, JKSA alleged. Narrating the incident, the association said that the issue came up during a cricket match between the 2019 and 2022 batches on February 18. Initially, Hamim was asked to stay out of the boundary of the playground by the seniors, to which he complied and started watching the match from a distance. When he refused to stay afar, asserting his rights, the seniors allegedly confronted him. What initially was a verbal altercation, quickly turned into bullying, with a group of seniors asking Hamim to perform an "Al-Ameen salute”, sing songs, and dance for their amusement.

They even tried to force him into their car, in an attempt to harm him further. Calling such actions inappropriate and against college rules, the victim student refused and took out his phone to record the incident, further enraging the seniors. Later in the evening, some students barged into the Kashmiri student’s hostel room and inflicted physical assault on him, beating him repeatedly and forcing him to record a video apologizing. 

They also gave him death threats and warned him that he would not be allowed to play cricket for the next four years. “You have four more years here. We are locals—imagine how terrible we can make your life,” the seniors were quoted as saying by the student. “Such incidents highlight the alarming culture of unchecked ragging and abuse within educational institutions. This is not just an isolated case of violence—it is a failure of the system meant to protect students. Immediate legal action must be taken against the perpetrators, and both college authorities and law enforcement must intervene swiftly,” said JKSA. 

Stronger antiragging measures need to be implemented to ensure the safety and dignity of all students, especially non-locals and Kashmiri students, who often face additional discrimination, it added. 

Recently, a junior student at a government nursing college in Kerala’s Kottayam was subjected to ‘brutal’ ragging, an incident that triggered widespread public outcry in the state. Five third-year students who targeted first-year nursing students have been arrested. In similar cases, a government college student in Kerala made allegations of brutal ragging, and an Indore medical college student claimed ragging on social media. Follow us for the latest education news on colleges and universities, admission, courses, exams, research, education policies, study abroad and more..

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Vellore doctor gang rape: Juvenile gets 20-year imprisonment

Vellore doctor gang rape: Juvenile gets 20-year imprisonment

In January this year, the Fast Track Mahila Court convicted four persons and sentenced them to 20 years of imprisonment

Updated - February 19, 2025 05:25 pm IST - VELLORE

The Hindu Bureau

The POSCO Fast Track Court at the Combined Court Complex in Vellore has convicted a 17-year-old and sentenced him to 20 years of imprisonment in connection with a gang rape that took place here in March 2022.

Judge D. Sivakumar delivered the verdict, sentencing the teenager and imposing a fine of ₹23,000 on him.

In January this year, the Fast Track Mahila Court at the court complex convicted four persons and sentenced them to 20 years of imprisonment and imposed ₹25,000 fine each in connection with the case. The police said the five persons, including the juvenile, were involved in the crime that took place past midnight on March 16 three years ago.

The police said that a woman doctor from Bihar and her colleague, a native of Nagpur in Maharashtra, were returning after watching a film at a cinema hall in Katpadi. They hailed a share autorickshaw in which there were four other men.

Instead of taking them to their destination in Old Town via the Green Circle on the Chennai-Bengaluru Highway, the driver took them to Sathuvachari.

Parking the vehicle at a secluded spot near a burial ground, the accused assaulted the duo and three of them gang-raped the doctor. The accused also robbed them of ₹40,000 and two sovereigns of gold jewellery.

After the incident, the woman returned to Bihar and lodged a complaint online with the then Vellore Superintendent of Police, S. Rajesh Kannan, on March 22. Based on her complaint, a case was registered by the Vellore North police under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code (PIC) and Section 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.

Subsequently, all the five accused were arrested. The four men were remanded in judicial custody while the teenager was sent to a correctional home. The stolen valuables were recovered from them.

Published - February 19, 2025 01:51 pm IST

Licences of Khyati hospital director, PM-JAYofficial suspended for 3 yrs

 Licences of Khyati hospital director, PM-JAYofficial suspended for 3 yrs

20.02.2025

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Medical Council (GMC), on Wednesday, suspended the medical registration of Dr Sanjay Patoliya, one of the directors of Khyati Multispecialty Hospital, and Dr Shailesh Anand, a state govt ocial overseeing the implementation of Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY), for a period of three years. The suspensions are related to the deaths of two PM-JAY beneciaries following angioplasty procedures at Khyati Hospital in Nov, sources said. The GMC stated that the action followed a Nov 14 request from the additional director of Medical Services, Gandhinagar seeking action against the medical practitioners named. The committee studied documents and decided to suspend the registration of Dr Patoliya for MBBS and MS (surgery) for a period of three years. Likewise, the registration of Dr Anand for MBBS and DCM have been suspended for three years in another order signed by the registrar of the GMC.

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Sending Messages 'You Look Smart, I Like You' 'To Unknown Woman Amounts To Insulting Her Modesty: Mumbai Court

Sending Messages 'You Look Smart, I Like You' 'To Unknown Woman Amounts To Insulting Her Modesty: Mumbai Court

Narsi Benwal

20 Feb 2025 9:12 PM

Sending messages like "You are slim. You look very smart. You are fair, I like you, Are you married or not?" etc to an unknown woman on WhatsApp, that too late in the night, would amount to insulting her modesty, a sessions court in Mumbai held recently while upholding the conviction of a man, who sent such objectionable messages to a former corporator.

Additional Sessions Judge DG Dhoble noted from the record that on January 26, 2016, the victim, who was then a sitting corporator from Mumabi's Borivali area, received messages - “Are you asleep? Are you married or not? You are looking smart. You are very fair. I like you. My age is 40 years. Meet you tomorrow" on her WhatsApp. The judge further noted that soon after she informed her husband and tried to call the 'unknown' number, the person who owned the said number - Narsingh Gude, did not receive the call and instead sent - “Sorry, call not accepted at night. WhatsApp chatting I like, come online” messages along with some 'obscene' photographs and messages too.

In the order passed on February 18, the judge observed that the messages and photographs were indeed 'obscene' and also noted that there was no relationship between the accused Gude and the victim or her husband, who too was a former corporator.

"No married woman or her husband, who are reputed and Corporator would bear such WhatsApp messages and obscene photos sent on her mobile in evening time from 11.00 pm to 12.30 am, especially, when there is no any relationship with sender. The alleged messages words, acts would amount to insult the modesty of women (under section 509 of the IPC)," the judge held in his order.

The court also held that the act of sending the obscene phots and the objectionable messages were sufficient for attracting punishment under sections 67 (transmission of obscene material in electronic form) and 67A (transmission of sexually explicit material in electronic form) of the Information and Technology (IT) Act.

According to the complainant, she approached the police because she felt 'ashamed' and 'outraged' after receiving those messages. However, the defence contended that no such incident took place and that the complainant and her husband had a 'political rivalry' with the accused and thus by using her 'political influence' the complainant, got a false case registered.

However, the court junked their argument. It said, "No woman would stake her dignity by implicating an accused in a false case. Therefore, the oral and documentary evidence of the complainant and her husband proves that she was received messages and obscene photographs from the accused on the relevant day."

As regards, the argument of the accused that he was not the one who sent, the judge said, "Since the appellant had exclusive knowledge of his phone's usage, he had the burden to explain how the messages originated from his number. His failure to provide any plausible explanation allows the Court to draw an adverse inference. The sender's identity is not automatically presumed but is established through circumstantial evidence, documentary proof and adverse inference under Section 106 of the Indian Evidence Act which is duly established by the prosecution."

Therefore, the court upheld the three months simple imprisonment imposed upon Gude and the fine amounts.

With these observations, the court dismissed the appeal filed by Gude against his conviction and sentence by a Metropolitan Magistrate Court in Borivali.

Appearance:

Advocate Ninad Muzumdar appeared for the Appellant.

Additional Public Prosecutor Mahajan represented the State.

Case Title: Narsingh Gude vs State of Maharashtra (Criminal Appeal 272 of 2022)

Madras HC upholds attendance requirement, denies exam plea

Madras HC upholds attendance requirement, denies exam plea

It further noted that even if 10% attendance is provided through condonation, the petitioner would have 67%, which is still 8% short of the requirement.

Express News Service

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20 Feb 2025, 9:35 am

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has refused to order a private educational institution to allow an undergraduate student with low attendance rate to attend examinations, stating such a relief would amount to mocking other students who regularly attended classes.

The student, who was studying BCom (second year) at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology, moved the HC praying for a direction to allow him to take the examinations and also attend classes in the 2024-2025 academic year. A single judge had dismissed his petition. Later, he filed an appeal.

Dismissing his appeal petition recently, a division bench of Justices R Subramanian and C Kumarappan observed that it has repeatedly been held that in academic matters, the court will not interfere but leaves it to the wisdom of academicians.

As per UGC regulations, a student should have at least 75% attendance to become eligible for writing the examinations, and if a student does not meet the requirement, the only result could be that he cannot appear for examinations, the bench said. It further noted that even if 10% attendance is provided through condonation, the petitioner would have 67%, which is still 8% short of the requirement.

Concurring with the counsel for the university, the bench said, “If this court chooses to sympathise with such students, it will only be misplaced sympathy and it would amount to mocking the students who attended classes regularly.”

Saying that the bench does not find any infirmity in the single judge’s order, it dismissed the petition. However, it said if the student is willing to re-do the course by paying the required fee, the university has to take him back on its rolls.

Must clear NEET-UG to pursue medical courses abroad: SC

Must clear NEET-UG to pursue medical courses abroad: SC

21.02.2025

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has refused to interfere with a 2018 decision of Medical Council of India (MCI) mandating qualication in NEET as an eligibility criterion to pursue an undergraduate medical course in a foreign institution.

A bench of Justices B R Gavai and K Vinod Chandran said introducing National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) qualication criterion ensures a fair and transparent procedure in the grant of eligibility certicate, and the regulation does not in any manner conict with the law. 

It said, "We find absolutely no reason to interfere with the regulations, in which context, the learned counsel sought for a one-time exemption as applicable to the petitioners. Obviously, afer the amended regulations came into effect, if any candidate chose to obtain admission in a foreign institution for pursuing a course   leading to a primary medical qualication, they cannot seek for an exemption from the regulations.. This does not restrict their right to practice anywhere outside India." "The regulations, especially additional mandate to satisfy the eligibility criteria, is not ultra vires the Constitution and neither is it in conict with any provisions of the Act (Indian Medical Council Act) nor arbitrary or unreasonable. Hence, all the petitions are dismissed," the bench said.