Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 27: High Court today imposed costs on petitioner for tampering with the marks awarded to him by the Service Selection Board (SSB) and directed the Crime Branch to register the case in this regard and investigate the matter.
The petitioner had filed the petition, seeking setting aside the appointment of private respondent as general line teacher on the ground that he was more meritorious than the private respondent.
Confronted by this the Service Selection Board referred the award roll of viva-voice of the petitioner to forensic examination inasmuch as on the face of it, it appeared that there had been some tampering in marks awarded to the petitioner.
The report of the forensic exanimation was produced before the court in a sealed cover. On opening of the report, the court observed that original marks allotted to the petitioner in the viva voce were only 11 which has been manipulated and tampered which it raised to 19 marks.
The court dismissed the petition and imposed Rs 25000 cost on petitioner on account of forgery and observed “the claim of the petitioner that he was more meritorious having secured more marks than a candidate selected appears to be totally without any basis whatsoever”
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