Shimla. The State High Court has once again reprimanded the inquiry committee which verified the detailed marks certificates issued to the students by Manav Bharti University. A division bench of Acting Chief Justice Sabina and Justice Satyen Vaidya expressed surprise that even three years after the fake degree scam came to light, the inquiry committee could not sort out the genuine degrees awarded to the students and the fake degrees. The court reprimanded the inquiry committee and said that this court will not let the affected students wait for decades for their hard-earned degrees. Out of about 2300 degree holders, about 250 students have written letters to the court or approached the high court through private petitions, pleading to get their original degrees back. The applicants said that due to lack of sponsor in their names from the university, they are not even getting admission for higher education.
The future of hundreds of innocent students like him is being played with and no one is giving priority to understanding their situation. Describing the criteria set by the Screening Committee as very strict, the applicants said that it is extremely difficult to get degrees on the basis of those criteria. As per the order of the court, the committee was ordered to fix such criteria on the basis of which copies of documents can be given to the students. It is noteworthy that as per the directions of the High Court, the Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Commission had ordered to constitute a committee to investigate and verify the documents related to fake degrees of Manav Bharti University.
