IIT-Roorkee In Lock Over Mass Copying

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 19 October 2011, 22:46 IST   |    10 Comments
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While the RTI response reported inaction in this regard, sources further said that certain "privileged" JEE candidates got their roll numbers in a sequence and thus were seated in a single room. "This obviously could not have been possible without the conspiracy of IIT JEE Roorkee officials," sources pointed out. In a shocking exposure, it is learned that the IIT Roorkee faculty members, Professor CSP Ojha (Civil Enginering) and Professor Prakash Biswas (Chemical Engineering), who were supervising the JEE Examination at Bhaitinda centre, had remained silent to the complaint of copying, the sources said. Furthermore, the issue was buried by the concerned faculty members. The issue was brought up by the parents of the JEE applicant, who had to lodge a written complaint with the Chairman, JAB and Director, IIT Kanpur. "With no FIR lodged as yet, it only compounds to our suspicion," they said to The Pioneer. A similar incident was brought by the sources in 2008 from a centre in Kota (Rajesthan). The JAB later decided to abolish Kota as a centre for IIT-JEE. Yet, the inquiry committee's findings were not revealed. In another case, an RTI query had disclosed that the son of an IIT Kharagpur Director and JAB Chairman, Prof SK Dube was caught copying in JEE at a Delhi JEE Centre. However, no FIR was lodged and no investigation was carried out by any official agencies.