Chattisgarh: Medical entrance test paper leaked, 12 held

Chhattisgarh authorities on Sunday cancelled the scheduled Pre-Medical Test (PMT) for admissions to medical colleges as the question paper was found to have been leaked.

Police have arrested 12 youths in connection with the leak which came to light last night. The new dates would be announced soon, the exam authorities said on Sunday.

The arrested persons include some students of dental and medical colleges.

Additional SP, Raipur, Lal Umed Singh said that acting on a tip-off police raided a house in Takhatpur village in Bilaspur district and found that some 80 PMT aspirants were being tutored on the basis of the leaked paper.

Police suspects that one Santosh alias Sanjay is the kingpin of the inter-state racket, which leaked the paper.

The PMT had been earlier scheduled for May 11 but it was deferred because some questions already asked in the Uttar Pradesh Pre-Medical Test had been mistakenly incorporated in the paper. Some 20,000 students have registered for the exam.

Govt questions 100% cutoff in Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University

The 100 per cent cutoff in Delhi University has evoked strong reaction from Union human resources development minister Kapil Sibal, who has called it irrational.

The first cut-off for BCom (H) at the Shri Ram College of Commerce released on Tuesday reached an unbelievable 100% for the non-commerce aspirants.

Sibal called this unfortunate and said he was saddened as it came at a time when the government was trying to simplify and make the process of admissions easy.

Sibal said such restrictive cutoffs demoralise students and their parents and should be avoided by the university.

The minister assured the parents and students that the anomaly would be rectified and requested the college and the Delhi University vice chancellor to look into the issue.

He questioned the wisdom of this decision as it denied admission to students who scored even as high as 99 per cent.

Criticising the SRCC move, Sibal questioned why a student who scores 99 per cent in science is not good enough to study commerce.

Responding to Kapil Sibal's appeal, Delhi University vice-chancellor said the cutoff will come down in subsequent lists.

However, the principal of SRCC PC Jain has justified the 100% cutoff for non-commerce students and said the college is following the established practice.