iconnectnews.comDelhi University's Shaheed Bhagat Singh College has cancelled admissions of 18 first-year students after its admission audit committee found they had given false information.
Sources said some of these students had submitted forged marksheets while others gave false caste certificates or wrong photographs.
It is not known whether the audit committee found any evidence of an organized admission racket in the college but DU sources said the administration is likely to order an inquiry and lodge a police complaint.
8 students were cancelled as documents and information provided by them are not in order. The decision was taken by the staff association. The next course of action will be decided by the governing body. The university has been informed," college principal P K Khurana said.
Teachers at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, where the admission of 18 students was cancelled on Tuesday, said there was an atmosphere of fear in the college following the move. Some facultymembers have raised concerns about coming to harm at the hands of the expelled students. The matter was also discussed in the staff association meeting.
Based on findings of the college admission audit committee, the staff association on Tuesday recommended cancellation of admissions of all 18 students under the scanner. The college accepted the recommendations and annulled the admissions of these students.
The last time the university was rocked by fake admissions was in 2011. In June that year, police had busted a racket wherein students were provided fake caste certificates for Rs 3-5 lakh and arrested of three youths. The forgers had managed to get 12 students admitted in various DU colleges.
Four months later, in November 2011, another admission scandal has broken out with police finding four cases of fake marksheets being used to get seats in Ramjas College.
