Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 1: Stooping low for a cover up of their own faults and falsely implicating a female candidate for the unfair means notwithstanding herself officially not present in the said exam, the Jammu University administration has resorted to unprecedented ways of persecuting its own student for a media expose on alleged malfunctioning of the Examination wing.
Creating history of sorts, the university not only framed a fictitious case of Unfair Means against the candidate by holding her responsible for a media report but also served her an official warning to be careful in future against approaching the press if she wants to let her case absolved .
Despite submission of all facts and chronology of events, which establish innocence of the candidate, the JU authorities are now forcing the victim to give an undertaking in writing that she would not approach the press to get her UFM case let off.
“I am directed to inform you that the authority has taken serious note of your repeatedly approaching the press on false grounds and you are warned to be careful in future. You are also required to give an undertaking in writing to this effect at the earliest so that your case may be let off,” says the latest official communication to the female student, namely Shabnam Akhtar, resident of Barnoti in Kathua and studying in M.A Sociology, 2nd semester from the Directorate of Distance Education in JU,
The entire controversy erupted in the month of May this year when the said female student was not allowed to appear in the examination despite issuance of roll number to her. After the candidate approached the Controller Examination seeking his intervention and justice, the university authorities instead of taking any action against this negligence of the Examination wing, framed a case of Unfair Means against her alleging that she had maligned image of Jammu University in media and so she has to pay for the same.
According to JU Controller of Examination, Sanjeev Mahajan, the candidate did not go the examination hall and this was stated by the Superintendent of the centre and moreover she had tried to malign the image of Jammu University by approaching media over the issue and hence a case of Un-fair Means was framed against her for presenting wrong statement of facts to the university authority in writing as well as in the newspaper by claiming that she was not allowed to sit in the examination centre inspite of being in possession of the roll number slip.
However, on the other hand, the mobile phone call details of the candidate, Controller of Examination and JU employee Manzoor establish that on May 7, the trio was in conservation with each other from 10.23 a.m to 12.30 noon, sources said and added that the same detail was also produced by the victim student to Jammu University but all in vain.
This was apparently for the first time in the history of Jammu University that a case of unfair means was framed against the candidate who did not appear in the examination and moreover for the alleged `offence’ committed by a newspaper. Further , if she was very much present in the University on the call of Controller, it is hardly to believe that the candidate despite all odds of the family, which includes rearing of her 3-month old child, had covered a distance of near 80 kms from Kathua, to Jammu that just for doing propaganda against the university.
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