Karnataka high court judgment on Post Graduate Entrance Test scam today

The Karnataka high court will on Thursday deliver its judgment on petitions questioning the state government’s move to nullify the results of 11 toppers of Post Graduate Entrance Test (PGET) conducted by the Rajiv Gandhi University for Health Sciences for alleged malpractices.

On Wednesday, the state government informed the high court that it was ready for any kind of a probe into the alleged malpractices.

It may be recalled that Vinod Karjgi, Haridattatreya Mantagni, Dhananjay and other disqualified toppers had questioned the deletion of their names from the merit list without giving them an opportunity to put across their views. Justice BS Patil adjourned the case to Thursday to dictate the orders.

Additional advocate-general KM Nataraj submitted that the state government wanted to cleanse the post-graduate medical admission process and said that it did not want to protect those who were involved in these alleged malpractices.

He also told the court that the government had concurred with the report submitted by the inquiry committee appointed by the lok ayukta.

Nataraj said that there were strong reasons to suspect malpractices. He disclosed that the government had already issued an order objecting to the B report filed by Bellary police that there was no proof of malpractice or a racket in the PGET.

The government said about 45 seats in different PG courses would be available for selection for the petitioner-candidates.