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| December 8, 2005 | Thursday | Ziqa’ad 5, 1426 |
SC disposes of paper leakage case: No discrepancy in marking
ISLAMABAD, Dec 7: The Supreme Court on Wednesday disposed of test papers leakage case after a report showing no discrepancy in the marking was submitted in the apex court. The report prepared by the Aga Khan Education Board (AKEB) on the directives of the SC stated that it found no discrepancy in the marking on papers given by candidates in the entry test for admission to medical colleges.
During the last hearing the court had directed the AKEB to compare the papers of 48 top position and second position holders with the rest of the 24 unsuccessful candidates who had challenged the result of the test.
The court had also directed the Punjab government to hold an impartial inquiry into the allegations of leakage of test papers.
The Punjab chief minister’s inspection committee chairman Brig (retd) Arslan Ali Khan had submitted his report before the court stating that no leakage of papers has taken place and the burden of proof to establish the scam rests with the students.
A three-member SC bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, was hearing the papers leak scam. The apex court had taken a suo motu notice of the case on a letter addressed to the CJP by students who failed to qualify the entry test. The result of which was announced on October 7.
In their letter, they said about 2,700 candidates, both boys and girls appeared from Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan and Bahawalpur but only 76 could qualify.
The complainants alleged that 1,500 candidates from Lahore passed the test because they paid Rs50,000 each to different academies, which leaked papers prior to the tests.
They had also complained that some academies imparting training to prospective candidates who showed 100 per cent result in the entry test just had managed to acquire the pattern of the question paper.
The students had pleaded to stay admissions of the candidates to the medical colleges who cleared the entry tests. They also sought restoration of the old system of admission.
Under the new system all the candidates seeking admissions in the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) programme have to qualify the entry test with a maximum score of 40 per cent.
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