IIT-Roorkee in dock over mass copying

The JAB, which conducts JEE for admission to IITs, has directed IIT-Roorkee to file an FIR on mass copying in the Bhatinda centre during this year's entrance test that was held more than four months ago.

By Akshaya Mukul, TNN | Oct 19, 2011, 09.28 AM IST

NEW DELHI: IITs, considered as the repository of high standard, do not think copying is a crime. The Joint Admission Board (JAB), which conducts JEE for admission to IITs, has directed IIT-Roorkee to file an FIR on mass copying in the Bhatinda centre during this year's entrance test that was held more than four months ago.

In an RTI reply, IIT-Roorkee has said the FIR has not been lodged and the decision is still pending. IIT-Roorkee was asked to file an FIR since two of its faculty members - Prakash Biswas and C S P Ojha - were sent as invigilators to the Bhatinda centre for conducting the JEE.

A fact-finding committee, set up by JAB, has barred Biwas and Ojha along with Sushil Kumar, another IIT-Roorkee staff, from any JEE-related activities for five years. The report had said that there "appears to be some nexus amongst the college authorities, certain invigilators and an employee of Giani Zail Singh College (centre for JEE)".

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