Saturday, October 5, 2019

HC seeks Centre’s report on NEET impersonation racket

‘Scam Not Possible Without Help Of Officials’

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:05.10.2019

Madras high court has impleaded the central government in the ongoing NEET impersonation scam, saying the issue is not confined to Tamil Nadu alone. Asserting that NEET impersonation could not have been possible without the involvement of officials, the court directed the CB-CID to provide details as to the involvement of government or college officials in the scam.

“Prima facie, it is clear that without the cooperation of any person, it is impossible for a student to make another person write his exam. Therefore, the CB-CID shall give details of the number of students who gained admission by fraudulent methods, how many persons helped them during malpractice, and whether government officials or the college administration is also involved in this fraud,” a division bench of Justice N Kirubakaran and Justice P Velmurugan said.

The bench passed the interim order on the plea moved by S Dheeran of Coimbatore seeking direction to the state government to undertake proper counselling and mop-up procedure to fill up 207 management quota seats that have become available owing to non-filling of NRI quota seats.

In a recent order, the court directed 10 private medical colleges in Tamil Nadu to submit details of admissions made under the non-resident Indian (NRI) quota.

When the plea came up for further hearing on Friday, the court was informed that three more private colleges — KMCH Medical College, Coimbatore, Muthukumaran Medical College, Chennai, and Madha Medical College & Hospital, Chennai – have to be impleaded.

Recording the same, the bench suo motu impleaded the three colleges and directed them to file details of students admitted under the NRI quota and the procedure followed by October 15.

This apart, counsel Abdul Saleem representing the selection committee informed the court that two more students have been found to be impersonated and got admission in government medical college and three others had got admission in deemed universities and that CB-CID is investigating the cases.

To this, the bench noted that the fraud should have spread all over India and more students should have got seats by impersonation or duplication by playing fraud throughout the country.

The court then suo motu impleaded Union ministry of human resource development, national testing agency, Tamil Nadu’s health department and the DGP as party respondents and directed them to file details as to the procedures followed while allowing the students to enter into the examination hall and the procedures followed by the selection committee while admitting the students into the hall and whether any communication takes place in the exam hall.



The bench of the Madras high court noted that the fraud should have spread all over India and more students should have got seats by impersonation or duplication by playing fraud throughout the country

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