Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Nov 24: Acknowledging that the paper of an engineering student who committed suicide was wrongly evaluated, the State Government today declared the evaluator as “deadwood” and ordered his compulsory retirement from his service.
Minister for Information and Technology Imran Raza Ansari told a press conference that he has directed the State Board of Technical Education Department to initiate strictest possible action against the delinquent lecturer and declare the officer as dead wood and compulsorily retire him from his service.
The evaluator, Mushtaq Ahmad Tiploo, who is senior lecturer at Government Higher Secondary School, Jawahar Nagar, had evaluated the Physics answer paper of an engineering diploma student Mohammad Adnan Gilkar and had declared him fail. The lecturer had given Adnan only 28 out of 100.
The student, after seeing his result, was shocked and committed suicide by jumping into river Jhelum. However after his suicide, the re-evaluation showed that he had scored 48 marks and also topped in his class.
The Minister said that the original answer booklet of Physics paper was also reassessed by the enquiry officer through a subject expert who said that Adnan has scored 50 marks out of 100.
The minister also directed his department to take action against the officers of the State Board of Technical Education (SBOTE) for negligence of duties. The overall supervision of the evaluation was the responsibility of the board officers,” the minister said, adding action as per rules will be taken against them.
Pertinently, the class mates of the deceased along with his father had staged massive protests here demanding “justice” to the Adnan.
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