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Agartala, July 10 : The Gauhati High Court's
bench here Tuesday stopped the counselling of students for admission to
medical and engineering courses on a plea alleging irregularities in the
Tripura Joint Entrance Board (TJEB) exam, a lawyer said.
The
court directed police to seize all the answer scripts of the TJEB exam
held in April for medical, engineering and other technical courses. The
result was declared last month.
Justice Subhashish Talapatra of
the Agartala bench of the high court also directed a scrutiny of the
answer sheets by hand-writing experts following allegations of
alteration of answers, the lawyer said.
The court directions came
on a plea by 11 engineering and medical courses aspirants, who appeared
in the TJEB exam. They alleged modifications in their answer scripts,
obtained under the Right to Information Act, he said.
Nearly 2,000 students appeared in the exam which helps students get admission in institutions in Tripura and other states.
The case would next be heard July 17.
The
main opposition Congress Tuesday demanded a judicial probe by a sitting
high court judge to unearth the wrong doings in the TJEB exam.
The
irregularities in the TJEB exam were the biggest scam in the education
sector in India, opposition leader Ratan Lal Nath told reporters.
The
Congress and its frontal organisations have launched agitations across
the Left Front ruled state in support of their demands that include
dissolution of the TJEB, dismissal of its chairman besides a judicial
probe into the alleged irregularities.
© IANS
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