Furnish info on MP medical varsity scam probe panel: HC to CS

Furnish info on MP medical varsity scam probe panel: HC to CS

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Bhopal/Jabalpur:15.09.2021

A division bench of Madhya Pradesh high court on Tuesday directed the chief secretary to furnish information on constitution of a committee to probe the MP Medical University scam while deferring hearing on the petitions related to the case to October 4.

Three petitions have been filed in the high court in connection with the scam— one of them a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking a judicial probe into the scam in which an Agra-based company, which was given contract to hold the exams conducted by the university and prepare marksheet of students, allegedly manipulated the marksheets of the students and changed their marks.

The second petition was filed by the company- Mind Logic Infratech Ltd— challenging the decision of the university to annul the contract with the company and the third petition was filed by the state government against the then registrar in-charge of the university.

During a joint hearing of all the three petitions— petitioners of the PIL contended that then in-charge registrar of the university Dr J K Jain had probed the allegations of scam against the company and found them prima-facie true. Not only was the marksheet of students manipulated and marks obtained by them changed, but their data was prepared not on the official site of the university but a private site, he said.

Following this, contract with the company was put in abeyance, but later, Gupta was also placed under suspension and the vice-chancellor resigned from the post.

The acting exam controller of the university, who was the first to complain against the company to higher authorities of the university has also been removed from the post. The petitioner also pointed out that Agra Medical University had filed an FIR against the company for a similar scam, yet it was given the contract by the MP Medical University.

The petitioner sought the court intervention to order a judicial probe into the scam.