Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, July 8: The State High Court today said that it won’t take any action against the authorities at this stage after assurance that the periodical reports with regard to multicrore scam in Elementary Teachers Training (ETT) colleges will be filed before the court.
Court is dealing with a PIL filed by Parents Coordination Committee way back in 2003 and till date various revelations has come before the court about the bungling and irregularities in ETT Colleges throughout the State.
“Compliance report in terms of previous order has not been filed, Learned AAG, assured the court that periodical reports as directed by the court will be filed. At his assurance, we do not initiate any action against the Authorities at this stage”, Division Bench of Justice M H Attar and Ali Mohammad Magrey said.
Meanwhile Inspector General of Police State Crime Branch has filed his status report which has been taken on record and court sought fresh status report from all the concerned authorities and posted the matter for further consideration in the week commencing from August 8.
In one of the reports it is alleged that the candidates were lured and amounts, ranging from 45,000 to Rs 80,000 were extracted from each one of them through touts for providing them degrees and certificates by these ETT colleges.
Enquiry report further alleged that these institutions were allowed and permitted to run the courses without issuance of NOC from the State Government, which is granted after inspection of these colleges.
As court has already held that insatiable human greed has caused immense damage to our educational system as such the whole country will become nation of block heads, thus making its future dark.
Another report filed before the court also revealed that a mafia in league with BOSE authorities is involved in this huge scandal and almost 480 colleges are operating in the entire State out of which 80 are in Kashmir Division and 320 colleges are in Jammu Division and two FIRs have been registered with regard to ETT scam as one in Kashmir and another in Jammu Division.
Court has been informed that in respect of the academic year of 2002-03 report has been filed at Jammu and investigation in respect of other years is continuing and challan has been filed before the court of competent jurisdiction.
It is said that a communication sent by Chairman BOSE to IGP Crime because of the enquiry report of Joint Secretary BOSE and offence u/s 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) has been added to the FIRs, which would mean that a conspiracy was allegedly hatched by the BOSE authorities with the owners of ETT institutes resulting into registering of FIR at Crime Branch Srinagar as well as Crime Branch Jammu.
Subsequently various college owners have been held guilty during the investigation conducted by Crime Branch and action as per law has been initiated against them and outcome of action taken is being submitted to the court from time to time.
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