Friday, October 25, 2019

Court news

NEET scam: Univs ordered to get students’ fingerprints

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:

In the NEET impersonation case, the Madras high court has directed all deemed universities in Tamil Nadu to obtain fingerprints of students and videograph the process in the presence of CB-CID personnel and the dean/principal.

A direction to this effect was issued by a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice P Velmurugan on Thursday. The CB-CID personnel, accompanied by forensic experts, will visit the deemed universities and get thumb impressions, said the bench, adding that the universities are directed to cooperate with the CB-CID.

As the experts are needed to compare the thumb impressions, the court suo motu impleaded director of fingerprint bureau, Chennai and directed it to provide experts for the process.

On Thursday, when the case came up before the bench, the National Testing Agency informed the bench that copies of thumb impressions of all 4,250 students admitted to MBBS courses in Tamil Nadu in 2019-20 had been forwarded to the CBCID Only those admitted to deemed to be universities in Tamil Nadu are yet to be received by the CB-CID, the court was informed.

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