Plea by DTU student who ‘cheated’ rejected
The Hindu
The student moved the court after he was allegedly found to have leaked the answers of a question paper of the second semester exams and given ‘Category IV’ punishment
The Delhi High Court has rejected the plea of an engineering student at Delhi Technological University (DTU) to revoke his punishment, after he was allegedly found using unfair means in the second semester examination in two subjects.
A Bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad observed that people using unfair means to steal a march over students who work hard to prove their worth have to be dealt with a heavy hand, adding that DTU has been “lenient” in imposing “Category IV” punishment to the student, rather than rusticating him.
“Category IV” punishment renders all examinations of the second semester taken by the student cancelled and make him ineligible for admission to the third semester. The student was directed to register for the second semester, alongside other B.Tech students admitted in 2022.
As per DTU records, on August 4, while the examination for “Programming Fundamental” was being conducted, an invigilator on duty caught one of the examinees with a mobile phone, used for the purpose of cheating.
On inspecting the phone, a WhatsApp group of 22 students named “Ans.” was found, which had shared images of some portions of a question paper of the “Basic Electrical Engineering” exam held on August 3 and some answers of “Programming Fundamentals” exam on August 4.
During inquiry, it was found that these pictures were shared from the mobile phone belonging to the student who has approached the High Court.
In his defence, the student said that he was a “bright student” who has won laurels at national levels and has been awarded scholarships in the National Talent Search Examination, 2019. He claimed that his mobile phone was taken by his roommate who misused it.
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