No state CET to be held outside Maha after 4 topped from 1 centre in Patna
Mumbai: After four students from a centre in Patna emerged as toppers in the CET for five-year LLB this year, the state govt has decided not to have any CET centres outside Maharashtra from next year.
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A thorough investigation will also be carried out alongside another scam already under investigation, where a group of touts promised seats in leading MBA institutes in the state, asking students to choose specific centres in Bhandara, Gondia, Yavatmal, and Jalna. The accused were arrested in Delhi early this year.
Higher and technical education minister Chandrakant Patil, during a media interaction on Thursday, mentioned that the four toppers emerging from a single centre in Bihar will be investigated, along with the already reported scam unearthed early this year during the MBA-CET registration process.
This year CET exams were conducted at 18 centres outside Maharashtra, depending on the demand from candidates. The state decides to allot a centre in any state only if there are more than 25 applicants from that particular state. Officials claimed that Bihar had only one centre.
Following the two incidents, Patil said that none of the CET exams will be conducted in centres outside Maharashtra, and students interested in seeking admissions to institutions in the state can travel and appear from centres here.
In the results for CET for five-year LLB announced on Wednesday, four candidates —Vishesh Kumar Pathak, Himanshu Jaiswal, Prakhar Jyoti and Sanskriti Saundarya— scored 100 percentile in the test and were declared as toppers. Interestingly, all four candidates also appeared for the entrance test from the same centre in Patna—Maha Infotech—three in the afternoon shift on April 28, and one in the morning. An official said that the four toppers were from two independent sessions and that venue officers from the state's higher education department were deputed at the centre too.
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Over 27,000 aspirants took the exam.
In March this year, the city's crime branch arrested three persons for targeting MBA aspirants seeking admission to the premier Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and promised them higher percentile in the MBA-CET in exchange for hefty sums from Rs 11 lakh to Rs 20 lakh. The touts instructed candidates to prioritise specific districts—Bhandara, Gondia, Yavatmal and Jalna—as their exam centres.
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