chennai a day after placing four professors under suspension for a marksforcash scam anna university has decided to summon nonresident indian nri students suspected to be involved in the racket for inquiryduring preliminary inquiry we found evidence for involvement of additional controller of examinations officials but the university is yet to ascertain the extent of the scam to gather more evidence the university would summon all the students who were found to be involved in the malpractices professors privy to the inquiry told toiif found guilty the degrees awarded to these students might be cancelled at least a few hundred students could be involved in the malpractices professors saidwhile looking into anonymous complaints the universitys threemember committee found evidence for malpractices in semester exams some students with more than 20 arrears have cleared them at one go through malpractices in 2017 the varsity has suspended four professors former additional controller of examinations acoe s srinivasalu and deputy controllers of examinations k selvamani from the department of computer science k kulothungan from the department of information science and technology and pugazhendi sugumaran c from the electrical and electronics engineering department for their alleged role in the scamthe racket was not limited to just these four persons it was a bigger network operated by middlemen in the university they used lower level staff professors and some students as brokers to lure the students professors saidsome of the nri students who pay rs 21 lakh as course fee for the fouryear engineering degree are admitted with lower cut off marks since the qualification is just 45 in physics chemistry and maths subjects for many students 1000 is not a big money the rich students with more arrears were targeted by the scamsters a professor saidthe university provides 5 quota each for children of indian workers of gulf countries ciwgc nonresident indian nri foreign national categories it is over and above the 60 seats per batch admitted through counselling nearly 400 seats are available in ceg mit and ac tech colleges under nri foreign national and ciwgc quota however the professors said not all the seats would be filled last year 270 seats were taken under this quota through a separate counsellingthe university recently terminated p tamilporai former additional controller of examinations k p mani anand former deputy controller of examinations and r sivakumar an assistant professor for their involvement in a similar revaluation scam in 2012