BTech marks scam: Teacher, pupils held

Sunit Dhawan  
Tribune News Service
Rohtak, March 22

The CIA wing of the district police has unearthed a racket to help BTech students pass exams by fudging their marks. The racketeers, via a middleman, would pay the university staff Rs 40,000 to Rs 50,000 per pupil to increase marks on answer-sheets sent for re-evaluation.

Pawan Sangwan, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Baba Mast Nath University (BMNU) here, and two BTech students — one from Faridabad and the other from a village in Jhajjar — have been arrested.

According to police sources, Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) would send BTech (Civil Engineering) answersheets to VK Ahuja, the director of an institute in Julana, for rechecking/re-evaluation, who would further send these to Sangwan.

Acting as a middleman, Vineet Dahiya of Sisana village in Sonepat, whose office is located near BMNU, would contact students who had applied for re-evaluation. He would call them to his office where they were asked to identify their answersheets. "Charging Rs 40,000-Rs 50,000 from each, the answersheets were tampered with and the marks increased,” said a police investigator.

  The matter came to light when a CIA team raided Dahiya’s office and found Sangwan and the two BTech students with answersheets. When questioned, none could give a convincing reply. The team seized 175 answersheets. The two teachers have been debarred from exam duty and an inquiry has been ordered, said BS Sindhu, Controller of Exams, MDU.