Kurukshetra, September 5: The Kurukshetra University (KU) Vice-Chancellor has marked an inquiry into allegations of manipulation of marks awarded to students of ancient Indian history, culture and archaeology.
Prof Sukhdev Saini, recently appointed chairperson of the department, had noticed irregularities in the marks for MA and MPhil courses.
The role of a senior faculty member in the department was under scrutiny. Professor Saini had reportedly approached the VC, KC Sharma, with a complaint and submitted some documents.
The VC said a committee under Prof Sham Kumar, Dean, Academics, had been instituted. Professor Kumar on Tuesday said the matter was being looked into.
Information gathered by The Tribune revealed that there were 14 MPhil scholars in 2017-18 and internal assessment of five students was allegedly manipulated.
In the staff council meeting held on July 25, it was recorded in the minutes that marks awarded to MPhil students by the seminar committee were changed fraudulently by a faculty member.
The committee also recorded its concern over the incident and decided to rectify the detailed marks cards of five students whose marks were found changed in the manipulated list.
In one case, the seminar committee had given 51 marks, but the marks were changed to 71. Another student had secured 40 marks whereas it was changed to 60 in the fraudulently prepared second list.
Similarly, there were 24 students in the MA (first year) in the 2017-18 academic session and all of them got equal marks in test seminar, internal test and attendance.
Sources said prima facie, it was a case of negligence wherein the entire class of 24 students secured 17 marks out of 20 in a subject of the first semester.
Following a complaint from Professor Saini of threat from his colleagues at the department, the VC had sanctioned installation of CCTVcameras.
Professor Saini said he was attacked by a few research scholars allegedly at the behest of the erring teacher. He said a frivolous sexual harassment complaint was filed after he exposed wrongdoing.
Source Tribune India
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