Admission fraud in Rajasthan: 9 MBBS grads lose case,face bar from practice
December 8 TIMES OF iNDIA 8.12.2024
Jaipur: Nine MBBS graduates who allegedly used proxy candidates during their RPMT 2009 entrance examination have lost their case in high court against the order by Rajasthan University of Health Sciences (RUHS) to cancel their MBBS admission. RUHS is now writing to the authorities to prevent them from practising medicine.
The candidates' legal representatives had informed the high court that their clients had completed MBBS and some were pursuing specialisation while others were working as medical officers in Rajasthan and Maharashtra. "They secured admission on the basis of cheating. They did not appear in the RPMT exam in 2009 and someone else appeared impersonating them. We will write to all the authorities concerned to prevent them from practising medicine," Dr Dhananjai Agarwal, vice-chacellor of RUHS, told TOI on Saturday. Initially, 16 such candidates were identied, and RUHS cancelled their admissions in 2017, but the candidates challenged the decision in high court. Four of them
The court ultimately ruled against them, with Justice Sameer Jain pronouncing his order on Dec 3 this week. "Courts can cancel the admission attained by means of fraud and unfair practices, even after a lapse of a decade, and no extra-ordinary circumstances prevail in order to invoke the jurisdiction of this court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India," the order said. "The instant batch of petitions being devoid of any merits stand dismissed. No orders as to cost. Pending applications, if any, shall stand disposed of," the order added.
The issue came to light when news emerged about 16 candidates allegedly involved in examination malpractices, leading to an FIR being registered at Ashok Nagar police station in Jaipur. A committee headed by an IAS ocer investigated the matter.
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