The Delhi High Court has recently said that every student who uses unfair means in the examinations should be dealt with a heavy hand and taught a lesson.
A division bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad said the students, who resort to unfair means and get away with it, cannot be the building blocks of this nation.
The bench further said that these students cannot be dealt leniently and they should be made to learn a lesson not to adopt unfair means in their life
The bench said this while dismissing an appeal filed by engineering student Yogesh Parihar, who contested the Delhi Technical University (DTU) order that had cancelled his second semester exams because he was found using unfair means in examinations in two subjects.
Earlier, a single-judge Bench of the High Court had refused to interfere with the DTU order.
As per the information available, a mobile phone was found in possession of another student which had WhatsApp group called ‘Ans,’ in which answers to the questions and the question papers were being shared amongst 22 students.
Parihar was a member of this group. The Scrutiny Committee of DTU found that Parihar was in knowledge of the fact that he was a part of the WhatsApp group and and said the phone was being used by his roommate Vatan Tomar.
The Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the DTU imposed category-IV punishment on Parihar and cancelled his exams. He was also asked to register himself again for the second semester.
After going through the arguments and documents presented, the Division Bench held that the reasoning of the VC does not require any interference.
The bench said that few students were able to get hold of the question paper and shared the answers amongst themselves, giving them unfair advantage against students who had worked hard.
The Court added that the University has been lenient in imposing category-IV punishment rather than rusticating the cheaters.