Paper leak: HC seeks response from Centre, AIIMS

NEW DELHI : The Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought responses from the Centre, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the CBI on a plea seeking a court-monitored probe into alleged illegalities and irregularities during the MBBS entrance examination to the premier institute held this year.

A bench of acting chief justice Gita Mittal and justice C Hari Shankar directed the CBI to place before it the agency’s status report within a week.

The petitioner sought a direction to AIIMS to quash the results of the exam held on May 28.

Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Dr Anand Rai, said the results declared on June 15 be only quashed if investigation “reveals that the entrance examination has been entirely and irreversibly vitiated”.

Rai, who claims to be a whistleblower in the Vyapam scam case, sought a direction to AIIMS to produce the finding of the institute’s committee constituted to probe complaints into the conduct of the examination.

Rai had on May 31 alleged that the question papers of this year’s entrance exam at AIIMS were leaked. Rai in a series of tweets posted images of question papers of the examination held across the country on May 28. He said he had received the snapshots from a source who claimed these were leaked from a college in Lucknow when the online test was on.