: It was a result that “defied the law of average” for the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) authorities when 30 of 3,000 students, who wrote its medical entrance examination from Farook College in Kozhikode, cleared it recently. The college was the only centre for the test in South India.
The University authorities eventually cancelled the exam suspecting “foul play” in its conduct. The decision put the college authorities as well as hundreds of examinees under the cloud of suspicion.
A judicial commission was appointed by the University to probe the issue. The committee headed by the former judge of Allahabad High Court, Imtiyaz Murtaza, recently submitted its report, which found no foul play in the conduct of the test. And, AMU on Monday decided against cancelling the entrance examinations conducted across the country on April 26.
The college authorities and students’ alike had pleaded their innocence in the event and argued that they had done nothing wrong in the entire episode. Monday’s decision by the AMU authorities has come as a great relief to the college authorities as well as the students, who took the test from the centre, says E.P. Imbichikoya principal of the Farook College.
According to him it was a test carried out under the complete supervision of the invigilators, who came from AMU and the college authorities had very little to do with it. “We are happy that the incident, though unfortunate, had given an opportunity for the world to once again recognise the super talent of students from the State when it comes to competitive examinations,” said Mr. Imbichikoya.
The college authorities had submitted data to the judicial commission to prove their innocence in the issue including a long history of high performance from the State in the competitive examination, all of which was examples for results that “defied” the law of average. “All that must have helped the authorities to be convinced of our innocence,” said P.P. Yusuf Ali, a faculty from the college, who had been one of the centre in-charges during the test.
