11 engineering students booked for admission fraud
By IANSWednesday, September 8, 2010
CHANDIGARH - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Wednesday raided the state-run Punjab Engineering College (PEC) here and booked 11 students for submitting forged documents to secure admissions under the Non-Resident Indian (NRI) quota.
This raid was conducted following complaints of irregularities in admissions to seats reserved for NRI students, CBI officials said.
“During the last few days, we had received a couple of complaints regarding students taking admissions in various engineering streams at the PEC under NRI quota by procuring forged documents. Therefore, we conducted a surprise raid at the PEC campus today,” Mahesh Aggarwal, deputy inspector general of the CBI, Chandigarh, told IANS Wednesday.
“During the raid, we have found gross irregularities in the documents submitted by some students. We have booked 11 engineering students and several others and started our investigation,” he added.
CBI sources said that the agency had received complaints that irregularities had been committed by the college authorities in admissions to NRI seats.
“We have seized some documents for further scrutiny. We will see whether any PEC official is involved in this racket,” said Aggarwal.
The PEC is a leading engineering institution in the region and is run by the Chandigarh administration.
