MP Medical University Scam: HC orders to submit committee findings to State for action
Madhya Pradesh High Court
Jabalpur: In the latest update regarding the alleged mass scale corruption in the Madhya Pradesh Medical Sciences University, the High Court has ordered to sent the copy of the high-level committee report to the Chief Secretary of the State.
Further, the High Court bench has also ordered that the action taken report should be submitted before the court within a period of four weeks, adds TOI.
The State Government had set up the high-level committee for investigating the allegations of irregularities in Madhya Pradesh Medical Sciences University.
Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that the committee was investigating complaints filed by seven different petitioners in several medical and paramedical colleges. While the Committee submitted its reports before the HC back in July, the findings of the report shall be discussed at the next date of hearing on January 2, 2023.
These petitioners had approached the HC bench back on August 16, 2021. Alleging "mass scale corruption" in the conduct of 2018-2019 examinations in the medical and nursing colleges of the University, these petitioners had urged the court for an inquiry by an independent agency.
While considering these appeals, the HC bench comprising of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Vishal Dhagat had ordered the State back on October 4, 2021 to set-up a high-level committee headed by a retired judge of the High Court, a Police Officer and three experts for probing the allegations. Consequently, after seven days, the State formed the Committee under HC judge KK Trivedi.
Consequently, the committee submitted its report back in July 2022. Indicating mass scale corruption, the report mentioned that 278 degrees had been given to people that were never students of the University.
The report mentioned that the University's report showed a mismatch between the number of the enrolled students and those that received the degrees. Mentioning that this mismatch had been found in 278 cases, the Committee report stated that the University took action only "in respect of a few candidates and institution."
According to the report in most of these instances, the mark sheets were issued "in the name of other candidates whereas the enrolment number reflects a different name."
"From the analysis it is clear that all three, the colleges, the university and the IT agency, have acted hand-in-glove in this mischief. It is unbelievable that in the garb of making corrections to the application form for taking part in the examination, altogether complete changes are made and a person who was not even a student in the college and never shown as admitted and enrolled in the university is permitted to take part in the final examination and go with a degree in his/her hand," stated the report.
As per the latest media report by the Times of India, after perusing the committee report, the High Court bench ordered on January 11, “we deem it just and necessary that the copy of the report of the committee be furnished to the chief secretary of the State of Madhya Pradesh. He shall consider the same and take an appropriate decision. He shall submit an action taken report within a period of four weeks from today. Further orders with regard to the same will be considered based on the action taken report of the chief secretary.”
