FIR Lodged; Students Who Complained To Get Time Till Monday
Lucknow: A fraud in choice filling of seats in the second round of counselling for UP Ayush UG 2023 surfaced as 30 candidates lodged complaints to the counselling board through e-mails or helpline numbers.
ADCP, East Zone, Syed Abbas Ali, said that an FIR under the charges of IPC’s section 420 (cheating) and IT Act was lodged late on Friday and a probe was underway.
Officials in the Ayush directorate said that the students who informed them about tampering were given an extra day and till Monday for admission.
Chairman, UP Ayush Counselling Board, Ayush department, Professor Arvind Kumar Verma, of State National Homeopathic Medical College, Hahnemann Crossing in Vibhuti Khand, lodged the complaint against unidentified miscreants.
In the complaint, Verma said the UP Ayush Counselling Board was conducting counselling for admission to BAMS, BUMS and BHMS for Ayush colleges, both private and those run by state government, for the academic session 2023-24 at the nodal centre.
He said some of the candidates complained through e-mail/ helpline number that their choice filling for seats in the counselling had been shown as changed.
“Some of these examinees had also lodged a complaint with the cyber cell of Lucknow police. They complained that they did not do any change in choice filling for seats for a college and despite this, their choice filling was shown as altered,” he said.
Verma said the complaint of the examinees had been sent to the Ayush board also. “It seemed that someone got access to the portal to make these changes,” he said.
“Of 1,251 government seats, 1,163 were filled; the other 88 will be done in the third round. While 5,183 are private seats, of which 4,689 have been filled,” said the officials.
