Cuttack, Aug 18: The Orissa High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI inquiry into alleged tampering of the mark sheet of a joint entrance examination (JEE) Main - 2022 candidate.
On the basis of a scorecard downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Education, the petitioner, who had cleared JEE Main -2022 alleged that his mark sheet was tampered following which he did not get a chance in JEE- Advanced.
Anshuman Kanungo of the Marshaghai area in Kendrapara district had filed a petition seeking direction to correct his National Testing Agency (NTA) score from 33.1372067 to 98.8810861 and serial number in the common rank list from 6,28,193 to 11,193. But the NTA disputed the claim of the petitioner in the court.
The division bench of Justice BR Sarangi and Justice MS Raman observed that the materials submitted by the petitioner constitute a prima facie case and directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to investigate the matter.
The bench also directed the CBI to submit the inquiry report as early as possible, preferably within four months.
Since the documents which have been annexed to the writ petition have been seriously disputed and not accepted by NTA, the matter requires investigation by an independent and impartial agency, the bench said.
“If the documents which are said to have been downloaded from the website of the Ministry of Education are genuine, then he should get admission into his choicest institution of the country, like IIT or NIT. But, if the documents are found to be not genuine, then it is to be found out how the same has been obtained by the petitioner so that such mistake cannot be committed by the authorities concerned in future,” the bench stated.
