Agartala: Guwahati High Court’s Agartala bench on Tuesday seized all answer scripts and entrance related documents from the Tripura Joint Entrance Board (TJEB) and ordered halting counselling for medical and engineering seats following detection of irregularities.
The court officials along with police had conducted search in the TJEB office immediately after the direction and taken all documents in the court’s custody, suspecting corruption in the exam.
The first case against TJEB had been filed by one Baishali Pal of Agartala on June 11. Subsequently ten others had become party to the case besides, filing two separate cases of manipulation of joint entrance result.
The court had sent the answer script of a medical aspirant to handwriting expert in Guwahati on July 7 following an allegation of altering a few pages of the answer sheet in the exam.
The court had initially directed TJEB authority to begin counselling for medical seat distribution from Tuesday.
Three engineering and medical aspirants who had appeared for the TJEB exam had filed a case in the high court on noticing discrepancy in their answer scripts, obtained under Right to Information Act (RTI).
Opposition Congress has demanded rechecking of the answer scripts and announcement of fresh merit list and a judicial inquiry into the entire process by a sitting judge. Leader of opposition Ratan Lal Nath accused Chief Minister Manik Sarkar of maintaining silence over the allegation. (UNI)