Fake 12th Mark Sheets -- Confusions in Engineering Colleges

      Several students who had submitted their class XII mark sheets for admissions in to engineering colleges were enquired and found to be fake. And no w a finger of suspicion is pointed at a superintendent in the Department of Government Examinations and two touts, identified as Anand and Prabha who are thought to be involved.

      The three are believed to be operating with the help of lower lever staff in various offices on the Directorate of Public Instructions campus, from where the Department of Government Examinations functions.

      On Wednesday, a Salem-based student, who had joined A C College of Technology using a fake mark sheet, confessed to the Tamil Nadu Engineering Admissions authorities that his father had paid Rs 3,000 to the superintendent to get the marks revised. His allotment letter has now been withheld. More than 40 such cases have been uncovered by officials of the centralized engineering admission process.