Lawyers say Pune college should have hired statistician to analyse pattern of giving less marks and then increasing them
The suicide of a student of the Indian Law Society (ILS) Law College following his being awarded zero marks in a subject, has kicked up a storm. The college authorities have appointed two student volunteers per class to look into the contentions of students who claimed there is a pattern in some subjects in which they received failing marks. However, some practising lawyers, who have passed out from the college, ask whether a statistician or a senior official from the college could find out the pattern and analyse it.
Meanwhile, the controller of examination, University of Pune, Dr Sampada Joshi started investigation of the answersheets of Soumitra Dhoble and submitted the report to vice-chancellor Dr Wasudev Gade.
“I cannot comment on the report since we have made the investigation and submitted the report to honourable vice chancellor,” she said.
A practising lawyer and an alumnus of ILS Law College, Kavita Shivarkar asked how the college has appointed two student volunteers per class to look into the contentions. “My question is that instead of asking students to analyse the pattern, the college should have appointed a committee to investigate the whole matter or at least a statistician who is well-versed with numbers,” she said.
She claimed this has been going on for several years, however, because of the suicide, the issue has come to the fore.
Principal of ILS Law College, Vaijayanti Joshi, told dna that analysing the pattern through numbers is not a big thing as the number of students is not that high and it can be easily managed by the students.
“It is not the students who are doing it as the examination department of the varsity has also initiated the same inquiry into this and they are also in the process of preparing the data,” she said.
She added, “We are expecting the collated data by all the classes soon and if there is such a pattern, we will approach the university and ask them to investigate the matter.”
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