Fayaz Bukhari
SRINAGAR, Dec 30: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court today directed the Board of Professional Entrance Examinations (BOPEE) to re-draw MBBS merit list of Common Entrance Test (CET)-2012 so as to adjust the meritorious students at the place of those candidates who were selected fraudulently in the professional colleges.
A Division Bench of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court comprising Justice Virender Singh and Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar today directed: “Those students who are deprived of their lawful right by the illegal and fraudulent means have to be given their due place on the basis of merit they have secured.”
The court has asked the BOPEE to select the meritorious candidates at the place of those who had been selected to the professional course through fraudulent means. “…those candidates who secured berth in the professional colleges by employing fraudulent means and on the strength of the money power have to be shown the door and meritorious students provided space in these professional colleges”, said the court order.
The Court observed: “The justice has not meted to the youth whose merit has become causality because of dubious and nefarious activity of those persons who were charged with trust of upholding the merit and selecting the genuine and meritorious students for undergoing various professional courses in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.”
The court order said that as per the status report submitted by the Government, so far 12 selected candidates have been identified who have been selected to undergo MBBS course illegally and fraudulently.
The Advocate General Mohammad Ishaq Qadri submitted before the court that 10 more candidates are being investigated by the Crime Branch. The AG also submitted before the court that BOPEE has been sent the information about the 12 candidates who were fraudulently selected for MBBS course and they have been asked to take action against them.
The court has also directed the BOPEE to file the status report about the action taken against the 12 candidates who were fraudulently selected for MBBS.
Qadri told the court that Crime Branch had sent a request to Telecom companies of BSNL, Aircel, Airtel and Reliance to provide call details of the suspected persons in the BOPEE scam but only Airtel has provided the call details while the other companies have refused to provide it.
The court has directed the Crime Branch to approach these companies afresh for the call details of the suspected persons and in case they refuse action will be taken against the under law.
The court said that the Telecom companies are duty bound to cooperate with the investigation agencies.
The court also directed the investigation agency not to allow any person involved in the scam to go scot free and at the same time directed that no innocent person should be unnecessarily harassed.
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