AHMEDABAD: Gujarat Technological University (GTU) will have to frame rules for punishment after the crime has been committed.
The GTU has realized that while the students who copy are liable for punishment wherein they are be barred from appearing for exams for two years, there is no punishment specified for a student using SMS as unfair means.
A teacher, Ankit Mehta, who was deputed as an examination observer, was caught sending questions and their answers to four students and another teacher by SMS, a little before the fifth semester exams were scheduled to begin.
GTU officials who discussed the case threadbare realized to their surprise there are no rules specifying punishment for students who are caught copying through SMS.
Meanwhile, GTU officials said that the two teachers and principals of four colleges will be summoned to give their statements on December 5 after the ongoing degree engineering exams are finished.
Gujarat University police station officials however have not initiated any inquiry into the incident so far since the GTU has only submitted an application regarding the copying incident. "The GTU has not filed an FIR as yet," police officials said.
Exam observers not to carry cellphones
After resurfacing of the paper leak racket, rules governing professors supervising the engineering exams are being made stricter. Gujarat Technological University (GTU) officials on Wednesday announced that no professor or lecturer involved with the exam process will be allowed to carry his personal cellphone into the centre.
However, the professors will be allowed to carry official cellphones. The announcement has come after a teacher, Ankit Mehta, who was deputed as an exam observer, was caught sending a question and its answer to three students and another teacher by SMS, right before the exams were to begin. The incident took place when exams for semester V and VII were being conducted by GTU at various colleges across the state.
Varsity may re-conduct the test
The bursting of the paper leak racket might cast shadow on all the semester V and VII engineering exams which will end on December 5.
As GTU is mulling to scrap the test and re-conduct the exam, sources said the university is investigating as to how many students got these questions sent through SMS before the exams. "The teacher, Ankit Mehta, was earlier suspended from a college in Himmatnagar for misconduct. We are trying to find out if more students were sent the SMS. Once the tests are over we will take a decision whether the exam should be scrapped," said a GTU official.
GTU has also pulled out all teachers of Alpha Engineering College of Ahmedabad, where Mehta worked, from the exam duty. The students take tuitions from him.
GTU officials said that exam observers can unlock the online questions paper 40 minutes before the test begins using the password given to them. GTU has also decided not to keep academicians less than the rank of assistant professor as exam observers and have two observers for each centre instead of one.
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