puducherry puducherry police succumbed to the pressure exerted by the various students and parents forums and booked a case on a complaint filed by former madras high court judge and puducherry permanent admission committee chairperson justice arumugaperumal adityan on alleged malpractices in admission of students into private professional colleges in puducherry the cbcid police on friday booked unidentified culprits under sections 466 forgery of record of court or of public register 468 forgery for purpose of cheating 471 using as genuine a forged document and 422 dishonestly or fraudulently preventing debt being available for creditors of the indian penal code and 66d punishment for cheating by using computer resource of the information technology act and initiated efforts to identify the culprits the retired judge who heads the admission committee lodged a complaint alleging malpractice in admission of students in private colleges we undertook preliminary investigations following directions from the igp and found that some miscreants have created a fake website to manipulate the merit list we have not narrowed down to anyone or institution at this point of time said a police official the justice in his complaint said two students k reshma and v aparna who appeared for the common entrance examinations conducted by an association of private medical and dental colleges in puducherry secured 83rd and 177th rank respectively in the merit list however some miscreants within the association manipulated their rankings and declared that reshma and aparna had secured 306th and 257th rank respectively and published the manipulated merit list in a fake website created by them the meritorious students were thus denied seat in medical colleges the students lodged complaints with the committee seeking action against the erring colleges the association of medical colleges admitted its mistake following the justices complaint and offered a mbbs seat to aparna who secured 177th rank in the merit list however the other student reshma who secured 83rd rank was denied a seat despite the justice setting august 31 as the last date the justice was left was no other option than to lodge a complaint with the puducherry government meanwhile students and parents forums have charged that puducherry government have not been taking necessary measures to streamline the admissions in private professional colleges and to regularize their fees structures they insisted the government to enact a law to regulate the admission and fee structure in private professional colleges as per the supreme courts direction the supreme court in its 2005 order directed all states and union territories to enact a legislation to regulate admission and fee structures in private colleges and added that until they pass a law in this regard they have to constitute two committees to regulate admission and fee structure puducherry government has not taken any initiative to pass a law even after 10 years and the committees formed as a temporary measure had miserably failed to perform its duties said school and higher education parents and students welfare association president s subramanian