The GNM Nursing Training, Sundargarh director was arrested and forwarded to court on Saturday allegedly for cheating a number of nursing students. Police also sealed the institution on Thursday.
Sources said Sundargarh GNM Nursing Training School, Sundargarh ANM Training School and Rourkela BSC Nursing Training are situated in one campus at Shankara. Authorities of the school had got permission for taking admission of 35 students for GNM nursing and 40 students in ANM nursing. But they had given admission to 69 students in GNM nursing and also 57 students in ANM nursing.
Recently before the start of the examination, all the students of GNM and ANM had filled up form but proper admit card had been given to 35 GNM students and 40 ANM students. While these 35 GNM students and 40 ANM students appeared for the exam in DIT centre in Sundargarh, the other 34 GNM students and 17 ANM students were deprived of admit card but the authorities allegedly had given them fake admit card for sitting in exam.
The school authorities asked them to sit separately in a closed room in the nursing school premises and conducted the exam. According to sources, they also gave Xerox copy of the original questionpapers to these illegally admitted students.
Suspecting foul play, the students met Sundargarh Collector on Thursday and lodged their grievance against the authorities of the nursing school. As per the instruction of Sundargarh Collector Bhupinder Singh Punia, the students of GNM and ANM nursing who had been cheated lodged their compliant in Town police station in Sundargarh. Town Police station IIC PK Jena along with other police officials went to the nursing school and conducted investigation. After finding proof of cheating, the police sealed the school. On Friday evening, police arrested Fakir Karn, director. Police are now searching to arrest Santosini Karn and Principal Sumita Patel.