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Varsity fails IPS officer in exams for alleged copying

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AHMEDABAD: The executive council of the Gujarat University has approved the reforms committee’s recommendations and declared the IPS officer, Rajnish Rai, failed in the first year law examinations for alleged copying.

The decision was taken at the council’s meeting here on Tuesday with majority support while some pro-Congress members opposed the reform committee’s recommendations and walked out of the meeting.

Rajnish Rai, who as the chief of the crime branch, had arrested three of his fellow IPS officers, including the former Deputy Inspector General of Police, D.G. Vanzara, in connection with the Sohrabuddin encounter case last year, was allegedly caught cheating at the first LL.B. examinations conducted by the Gujarat University.

Mr Rai was appearing in the examinations in a college in Gandhinagar, where the supervisor allegedly found a scale in his possession “scribbled with something” and seized his answer papers.

Though he was allowed to continue to appear in the examinations after about half-an-hour, the university authorities, apparently at the prompting of the Minister of State for Home, Amit Shah, who was reportedly unhappy with Mr Rai’s handling of the Sohrabuddin case, referred the matter to the reforms committee along with a few other complaints of copying.

Though the offending scale, which was supposed to had been deposited with the principal of the college, was found “missing,” the reforms committee accepted the supervisor’s oral complaints of copying and recommended that Mr Rai be declared failed in all the subjects.

Mr Rai had since been contesting the claim and had maintained that he was not aware what was scribbled on the scale, if anything, it could be something written by his six-year old son, and was totally unrelated to his law examinations.

His demand to produce the offending scale to justify his point had gone unheeded by the university authorities.

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