Students resorting to unfair means can’t build nation: Delhi HC

The court was hearing a petition filed by an engineering student who was found using unfair means in the end-term second semester exams. 

 

 The Delhi High Court has rejected an engineering student’s appeal against an order of the Delhi Technological University (DTU) that had cancelled his exams after he was found cheating in the end-term second semester examination, The Print reported. 

The court observed that students who resort to “unfair means cannot build this nation” and cannot be dealt with leniently. Cheating is like a pandemic which can ruin society, the court said.  

The court said, “Copying and cheating in examinations is like Plague. It is a pandemic which can ruin society and the educational system of any country. If the same is left unchecked or if leniency is shown, the same can have a deleterious effect. For any country's progress, the integrity of the educational system has to be infallible.” 

The court said in the present case, certain students were able to get hold of the question paper and shared the questions and answers amongst themselves, which gave them an unfair advantage over those who burned the midnight oil to prepare for the exams. The court asserted the conduct of all stakeholders has to reflect unblemished commitment -- whether it is paper setters maintaining utmost confidentiality or students not cheating or invigilators being vigilant etc – and the appellant's university was, in fact, lenient in not rusticating those who had cheated. 

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