Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Mar 10: Division Bench of Jammu and Kashmir High Court today asked Board of Professional Entrance Examination (BOPEE) to notify deserving candidates about the possibility of their admission in MBBS course after later informed that it has cancelled admission of nine more candidates found to be the beneficiaries of the Common Entrance Test of 2012.
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation, the division bench of Justice Hasnain Massodi and Dhiraj Singh Thakur also asked Crime Branch to provide within two days its requirement on account of call details to telecom companies so that they may appropriately respond to it.
"The Crime Branch should tell the telecom companies about the requirement within two days. The telecom companies will respond accordingly whether or not they can provide the details," the division bench said.
The division bench also asked the BOPEE to notify 21 candidates who could have made it to merit list, asking them to indicate their willingness or otherwise about the vacancies. "Let first exercise be completed," the bench asked the BOPEE counsel.
The direction by the court followed the reply by counsel for BOPEE that it was finding it difficult to accommodate the 21 candidates.
"As per reports, DBS and MBBS have same syllabus for the first six months, and then it is different.
Second difficulty is that they can be accommodated in 2014 as there was no other alternative."
Earlier, the BOPEE informed the court that it has cancelled the selection as well as admission of 9 more candidates, named in the supplementary charge sheet filed by the Crime Branch of Police as beneficiaries of the cash for paper scam of 2012.
The nine beneficiaries are Aina Hilal Shokli, Aroj Mushtaq, Obaid Yousuf Lone (minor), Yameena Jan, Wajid Majeed, Ruhail Ahmad Mir, Imtizaj-ul-Hussain, Danish Majeed and Meem Hai Mehran (minor).
The Board has conveyed its decision to Principal Government Medical College Srinagar/Jammu, where the students were studying, the report said.
In its status report, the Crime Branch stressed need to have Call Detail Records, underlining that was due to the technology that helped to track the sole accused candidate from Jammu so far.
"Surprisingly, one of the accused candidates Imtiyzjul Hussain Shah, had accessed the whole question paper through telecom tele-con during the nights preceding the exam days. The accused sub-broker M Amin Ganie read over the whole question papers to Imtiyzjul Hussain Shah through the cell number of his father." The deal, crime branch said, was settled for Rs 22 lakhs. |
