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Court dismisses plea of students caught cheating in examination

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CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Monday dismissed a petition by over 20 teacher training institute students, who were caught by a ‘flying squad’ for adopting the ‘Vasool Raja MBBS’ technique of using cell phones to answer questions in examination.

In his order, Justice K. Chandru observed that the facts projected in the petition depicted the modus operandi of the heroes of the films Vasool Raja MBBS and Munna Bhai MBBS. “One begins to wonder whether our youth gets ideas from movies or movies are portraying real-life situations. While such debates may continue, the degeneration to which the petitioners have descended to will shock one and all. From gun-wielding or knife-holding examinees in some northern States, the present high-tech shift of their techniques may reduce tension to the hall supervisors. But, nevertheless, it is a new scourge in our educational campuses. That such people are going to be the teachers of tomorrow really chills our spines,” he said.

P. Sumangala and 21 others were students of the Madha Teacher Training Institute at Thamarai Pulam in Nagapattinam district, were doing Diploma course in Teacher Education. Mr. Justice Chandru said the facts clearly showed that the petitioners had attempted to hoodwink the authorities and had contravened the rules meant for writing examinations.

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