MBBS Admission: 7-year Jail to Student Who Submitted Fake SC Certificate
Bhadohi: Punishing a student who had submitted a fake Scheduled Caste (SC) Certificate for securing admission to the MBBS course at Prayagraj's Motilal Nehru Medical College, a local court in Uttar Pradesh recently sentenced a student to seven years of imprisonment.
Apart from this, the Court has also imposed a fine of Rs 11,000 on the student. PTI has reported that the said student, Amit Kumar Bind, a resident of Ibrahim Pur village in Gopiganj, initially enrolled himself in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya with an OBC certificate.
However, on March 23, 2010, he allegedly obtained a forged certificate identifying him as belonging to the Khatik caste which comes under the SC category. He used this certificate to gain admission in 2018 to the MBBS programme at Motilal Nehru Medical College under the SC quota, Superintendent of Police Meenakshi Katyan said.
The issue came to light when Vijay Bahadur alias Vishram, a resident of Gopiganj, filed a complaint on June 7, 2018. Following an investigation, a case was registered against Amit Kumar Bind and a chargesheet was submitted in court.
Katyan said after the FIR was registered, the medical college revoked Bind's admission and expelled him. Special Public Prosecutor Ramesh Chandra said the case was heard in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sabiha Khatoon.
After hearing arguments from both sides, the court found Bind guilty, sentencing him to seven years in prison and ordering him to pay a fine of Rs 11,000, he said.
Earlier this year, the Central Bureau of India (CBI) registered a case in connection with the alleged issuance of false certificates of reserved category candidates and the use of these fake certificates for admission in medical colleges in West Bengal for the last three years.
Allegedly, a large number of ST candidates were allotted seats for different government colleges, though in reality they do not belong to the ST community but obtained ST certificates from the competent authority either fraudulently or by way of manipulation and under such circumstances the petitioner lodged a complaint to the Director of Medical Education and Chairman of West Bengal Medical Counseling Committee against which no proper action was initiated.
