Jammu and Kashmir High Court has asked the scandal-hit Board of Professional Entrance Examinations to consider cancelling admissions of students who had resorted to fraud to get entry into government-run medical colleges here last year.
A division bench comprising justices Virender Singh and M H Attar stated this after perusing the status report filed by the Crime Branch in response to a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking probe into alleged fraud in the Common Entrance Test conducted by the Board (BOPEE) in 2012.
"Justice has not been meted out to the youth whose merit has become casualty because of the dubious and nefarious activities of those persons who were charged with trust of upholding the merit and selecting the genuine and meritorious candidates. Those students who are deprived of their lawful right by the illegal and fraudulent means have to be given their due on the basis of merit.
"This solemn purpose can be accomplished only when those candidates who secured berth in the professional colleges through fraudulent means and on the strength of money power are shown door and meritorious candidates provided space in these professional colleges," the bench said.
Advocate G A Lone, appearing for BOPEE, submitted that the information about the 12 candidates has been received from the Crime Branch and "necessary steps will be taken by BOPEE in this behalf."
Crime Branch started investigations into the scam after a written complaint was received earlier this year alleging that 12 students had qualified the CET 2012 examination by purchasing the question papers from a syndicate that included some officials who were close to the then chairman of BOPEE, Mushtaq Ahmad Peer.
According to the complaint, 12 students mostly hailing from Anantnag had benefited from the scam and got admissions in various professional colleges of the state.
