These things happen only in India. It’s been 4 months that the Common Admission Test (CAT) scam was detected and 80 scores were found to be tampered with. To-date, nothing has moved in the case. Police say that the case has shifted departments and investigations are on.

ALL EVIDENCE AVAILABLE

Ironical that it is taking so much time to investigate a case, in which the evidence and partakers are both known and easily available. According to sources, CAT officials have submitted the entire list of 80 names to the police, along with numbers and addresses of the candidates whose scores were tampered with. All that has to be done is to reach out to these candidates and get the truth out.

In fact, in one family both the siblings have their names in the list of 80. Now that cannot be a coincidence!

SOME STUDENTS RETAINED

On the b-schools end, while some have retained the students whose names figures in the list, others have let them go. One student, from a b-school in Delhi, claims that her score before and post the re-evaluation has been the same. This is when, it s believed (IIMs are very secretive and have not made this report official) that the committee which was set up to study the scam recommended that schools should withdraw admissions to the ‘affected’ students.

There is no news from the Web Weavers end either. The sole employee working with IIM Kozhikode who has been missing since the day the scam broke is still not traced. There is a suspicion that the person caught in connection with the NMAT scam may have a clue to the CAT scandal but no one has bothered to check whether the two are really connected.

MARKED IN RED

And the strangest news of all is the fact that whoever spearheaded the scam was quite a dud himself. He or she had clearly marked out the names of those students (who had their scores altered) in red on the site run by Web Weavers. After the anonymous email was received, CAT officials re-looked at the results found the names of the students in red which made identifying them so much easy. So either the results were tampered with in a hurry or whoever did it was not so smart.

The IIM officials are worried over the delay. However, sources say that there is also a concern that hopefully, the delay is not intentional to protect some people.

It would be interesting to see what the outcome is.

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