Excelsior Correspondent
Jammu, Nov 26: National Conference today demanded judicial probe into the functioning of Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) from its inception with special reference to alleged leakage of papers pertaining to post graduate courses in 2003 and shielding of the likely beneficiaries who numbered 21.
“While the accused involved in the leakage were chargesheeted after a due process, the action against the beneficiaries was got stalled despite highest authority in the then Government briefed about their identification,” Provincial President Devender Singh Rana said at a hurriedly called press conference at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this evening.
Flanked by Political Secretary to Chief Minister Tanveer Sadiq and Provincial Secretary Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, the Provincial President gave the sequence of events that unraveled the 2003 scam which surfaced on December 6, 2003 when several persons were arrested. They were interrogated which led to the involvement of many persons, including an employee of the printer from outside the state. It took the then Government to black list the printer, involved in paperleak with the assistance of local accomplices seven long months, though the action should have prompted immediately after the disclosure of the scam. On December 10, 2003, the question papers of MD entrance examinations were recovered from the accused in a private residence at Bemina. The printer was blacklisted on July 9, 2004. The challan against those involved in paper leak was presented without any mention of the likely 21 beneficiaries.
Mr Rana disclosed that while the investigating agency was likely to act against the beneficiaries, the intervention by the highest authority in the Government stalled the process with the case withthdrawn from highly decorated police officer late R. V Raju and shifting the then IGP Crime.
Mr Rana wondered as to why the Government showed such an urgency to shield the beneficiaries, who actullay they were. “This remains a mystery even after a decade of the crime committed in the noble medical profession”, he maintained.
Replying to questions, the Provincial President said that there was nothing wrong to bring those involved with the hush up under the ambit of investigations, howsoever powerful they might be, as the decision to shield the likely beneficiaries was taken at the highest level. He clarified that those having commited the crime were not sacrosanct even if they belonged to Congress, PDP or National Conference. “Truth must come out, as the scam involved the professionals dealing with the lives of people”, he said.
Meanwhile, predicting imminent trifurcation of People’s Democratic Party ahead of 2014 elections, Provincial President National Conference said that six to seven of its legislators are going to quit soon thus completing the second phase of its dismemberment.
“The first phase took place ahead of expectations when prominent PDP leaders deserted the party because of their disenchantment with deceptive and opportunistic policies of the party leadership while the process of its annihilation began with Muftis overtures towards fascist BJP for lust of power”, said Mr Rana while replying to questions after joining of prominent BJP leaders in National Conference at Sher-e-Kashmir Bhavan here this morning.
Mr Rana and Minister of State for Animal and Sheep Husbandary Nazir Ahmed Khan Gurezi welcomed R. S Jasrotia, a former President of the State BJP Labour Cell, Vikas Sethi and others in the party fold.
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