The CBI has registered a preliminary enquiry to look into the complaints of a JEE aspirant who has disputed his National Testing Agency scores before the Odisha High Court, officials said.
The CBI has registered the PE on the orders of the High Court which had directed it to ascertain the “correctness” of the claims made by Anshuman Kanungo. He has said that based on an e-mail from the NTA he received high scores in JEE 2022, but the NTA disputed it saying his marks were “very less”.
Kanungo told the High Court that there were over 100 cases across the country where students have disputed the scores for JEE, 2022.
While handing over the probe to the CBI, the High Court had noted that if the documents presented by Kanungo, downloaded from the website, are genuine he should get admisson into his choicest institution of the country like IIT or NIT.
“But if the documents…are found to be not genuine, then it is to be found out how that same has been obtained by the petitioner, so that such mistakes cannot be done by the opposite parties in future,” the bench of Justices BR Sarangi and MS Raman had said on August 17.
