The man who literally played with the careers of 244 students of Vasavi Junior College is a habitual ‘cheater’ and the Board of Intermediate Education (BIE) has dug up information that he resorted to similar ‘cheating’ in 2015.
The accused and the Correspondent of the the Vasavi Junior College, Vanasthalipuram, Seenaiah started Navodaya College in LB Nagar in 2015 and resorted to similar tactics of collecting fee from students and not paying it to the BIE.
Senior BIE officials told The Hindu that he was asked to pay a fine of ₹ 11.77 lakh in 2015 when he approached the BIE for forwarding the applications of students enrolled in Navodaya College late at a penal fee of ₹ 5,000 per student. When he disappeared without paying the fine, students approached the Board and were allowed to take the exam as students of Government Junior College, Saroornagar.
“We could accommodate them as they approached us 10 days before the exam, but now we could do little as the issue was brought to our notice just two days before the exam,” an official said.
Officials say he has successfully cheated the present batch as well and they suspect he might have conducted fake exam for the Environmental Education and Ethics and Human Values to keep students’ hopes alive for the hall-tickets. Or else, they would have approached the BIE then itself. “The accused wanted to use similar tactics to escape from paying penalty as the BIE would permit students on humanitarian grounds.”
In the present issue too, the college neither had the permission nor the affiliation. Permission for Varun College was taken in Suryapet in 2013-14 and since then not a single student was admitted as per BIE records. Seenaiah apparently bought it from the original owner and applied for change in society’s name and also for shifting the college.
The BIE did not give the no objection certificate (NoC) pending submission of relevant documents and fee. On February 8 this year, he approached the BIE again seeking online login facility for uploading students details. When he was asked to pay ₹ 5,000 penal fee per student, he approached the Court which ruled in favour of BIE. Realising that all doors were closed, he misled the students fearing physical assault or questioning by parents and kept the issue pending till the last date hoping that BIE would permit students on humanitarian grounds.
