Rohtak MBBS Exam Scam- Students Admit Answer Sheet Tampering, Deny Involvement
Haryana- During the hearing before the disciplinary committee at PGIMS Rohtak in connection with the “MBBS exam scam” at Pandit BD Sharma University of Health Sciences Rohtak (UHSR), some MBBS students of a private college confirmed tampering with their answer sheets but denied any involvement. The students also pointed out that some parts of their answer sheets had handwriting that was different from their own.
The sources informed Tribune that a committee was constituted by the UHSR authorities to hold personal hearings with MBBS students and obtain their responses regarding their answer sheets. Hence, from March 17 to 19, the committee called for hearings of over 30 students, most of whom were named in the FIRs related to the scam. The students were given an opportunity to check their answer sheets and confirm the discrepancies. The students were called for the hearings in batches through their respective college authorities.
Speaking to Tribune in this regard, a PGIMS official, on the condition of anonymity, said that four to five students admitted that some parts of their answer sheets had different handwriting but insisted that they did not know who was responsible for it as they had submitted their answer sheets directly to the invigilators.
The official added, “Except for these, the rest of the MBBS students denied any tampering with their answer sheets. As a result, the Disciplinary Committee has decided to get all these answer sheets examined by a handwriting expert. A previous inquiry by a three-member panel, led by the Director of Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College, Karnal, had already found evidence of tampering in several answer sheets”.
Meanwhile, the committee had also obtained written consent from all the students that their answer sheets would be analysed by a handwriting expert.
