Hyderabad board declares mark sheets of 43 MDCAT-pass candidates ‘tampered’

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HYDERABAD: The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad has declared the mark sheets of as many as 43 candidates who passed this year’s Medical and Dental College Admissions Test (MDCAT) and got admission to Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Jamshoro tampered with, it emerged on Monday.

Officials said that the LUMHS had sent mark sheets of 48 candidates to BISE for verification on the orders of a division bench of the Sindh High Court on a petition filed by a girl student who secured 150 out of 180 marks in MDCAT.

The petitioner had stated that a student, identified as Fariha, obtained 869 marks in the Intermediate Examination 2026, whereas her purported mark sheet dated Aug 19, 2026, reflected 930 marks, showing a discrepancy of 61 marks.

Hearing this, the bench comprising Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon and Justice Mohammad Jaffer Raza ruled that the “matter calls for verification and regulatory compliance”.

On SHC orders, LUMHS sent transcripts of 48 students to BISE, only five authenticated

It asked the authorities to “address the identified discrepancy expeditiously” and “ensure that any decision affecting a candidate’s eligibility is supported by official record and taken after affording affected persons an opportunity of hearing”.

Later, the director of admissions of LUMHS had sent a letter to the BISE controller of examinations, requesting him to urgently verify the credentials of 48 students.

Officials said that the BISE declared the transcripts of only five candidates authentic, while the mark sheets of the remaining 43 candidates were found to have been tampered with.

Published in Dawn, November 10th, 2026

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