Madras varsity goes to police over missing answer scripts
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 06.03.2018
Chennai: University of Madras on Monday lodged a complaint with the Anna Square police station regarding answer scripts going missing from the Institute of Distance Education (IDE) on Friday.
After a complaint was lodged by registrar R Srinivasan, a CSR (community service register), a precursor to the filing of a First Information Report (FIR), was issued and an investigation launched, he added.
The issue pertains to a few hundred answer scripts reported missing from the second floor of the IDE building located on the Chepauk campus of the university. The answer scripts were of exams held in March 2017 for which the results were published in April.
“Usually, the university has the practice of disposing the corrected answer scripts six months after the results are published. Such complaints are received every year,” a police officer said. The papers are sent to the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL).
The missing answer scripts are important as the university is probing an alleged scam in the IDE exams held in November and December 2016. Based on the hand-writing and other evidence gathered from the answer scripts, university officials had deduced that there were irregularities. Most of the students, despite being from Chennai, had gone to centres like Hyderabad and Mumbai to write the exam, allegedly to escape tough supervision. Collusion of distance education centres is suspected, but a complete report is awaited.
University sources have not ruled out the possibility of the answer scripts pertaining to the alleged scam being among the missing papers. A detailed inquiry has been conducted. Sources say there has been a breach in the security of the room, but the motive of allegedly stealing the answer scripts is not yet clear. “It could just be for money which can be made by selling the papers,” a source said.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK 06.03.2018
Chennai: University of Madras on Monday lodged a complaint with the Anna Square police station regarding answer scripts going missing from the Institute of Distance Education (IDE) on Friday.
After a complaint was lodged by registrar R Srinivasan, a CSR (community service register), a precursor to the filing of a First Information Report (FIR), was issued and an investigation launched, he added.
The issue pertains to a few hundred answer scripts reported missing from the second floor of the IDE building located on the Chepauk campus of the university. The answer scripts were of exams held in March 2017 for which the results were published in April.
“Usually, the university has the practice of disposing the corrected answer scripts six months after the results are published. Such complaints are received every year,” a police officer said. The papers are sent to the Tamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd (TNPL).
The missing answer scripts are important as the university is probing an alleged scam in the IDE exams held in November and December 2016. Based on the hand-writing and other evidence gathered from the answer scripts, university officials had deduced that there were irregularities. Most of the students, despite being from Chennai, had gone to centres like Hyderabad and Mumbai to write the exam, allegedly to escape tough supervision. Collusion of distance education centres is suspected, but a complete report is awaited.
University sources have not ruled out the possibility of the answer scripts pertaining to the alleged scam being among the missing papers. A detailed inquiry has been conducted. Sources say there has been a breach in the security of the room, but the motive of allegedly stealing the answer scripts is not yet clear. “It could just be for money which can be made by selling the papers,” a source said.
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