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Sambalpur, May 3: Students of Vikash Junior College under Sasan police limits here were taken aback Sunday after they failed to appear in the All India Pre-Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) at New Delhi due to faulty admit cards issued to them by their teacher.
A few students of the college went to New Delhi to appear in the test Sunday. After the students turned up at a school mentioned as the centre of the test in their admit cards Sunday morning, security guards there told them that the school was not the venue for the test, sources said.
The students then contacted their parents and informed them about the matter. After the students and their guardians brought the matter to the notice of the
college authorities, they surprisingly claimed to be unaware about the matter.
As the guardians and college authorities went into the details, they found that a teacher of the college had issued fake admit cards to the students after taking huge amount of money from them.
Later, a guardian, Tapan Nayak, and principal Sanjeev Kumar Babu lodged a complaint against the teacher with Sasan police who arrested the accused teacher, Dibyajyoti Mohapatra, and registered a case against him in this regard.
Interestingly, college authorities claimed they had no clue even though the teacher took a lot of money from the students and managed to arrange fake admit cards for them.
“We came to know after the students and their guardians informed us about the matter. This is unfortunate and action will be taken against the teacher as per the provisions of law,” said college chairman Murali Krishna.
He, however, brushed aside the allegations of involvement of any other teacher or official of the college in the
incident. “There is not an iota of truth in the allegations of involvement of other teachers or staff of the college,” he added.
According to the complaint, 15 students of the college had appeared in Plus II Science annual examination recently. The students took the help of chemistry teacher Mohapatra to fill their forms for AIPMT.
The complaint said the teacher had charged Rs1,500 from each of the students and handed over the admit cards to them April 26. As the admit cards were issued to them in the last moment, some students could not arrange train tickets for New Delhi to appear in the test.
After receiving the admit cards, some students went to New Delhi and reported at the venue of the test. Though the students waited there for more than one hour, the teachers of the school did not arrive for conducting the test. After the security guards told them that the school was not a centre for the test, the students contacted their college.
The college authorities replied to the students that no application was sent on behalf of the college for the test. The students were provided fake admit cards, they added.
