Daughter gets bogus hall ticket for Neet exam, dad files complaint
A much agonized father of Jeevitha told reporters here on Monday that she had applied through the private e-seva centre for the Neet exam this year.
Namakkal: In a shocking incident, the father of a medical college aspirant on Monday filed a complaint with the Rasipuram police seeking action against a private e-seva centre whose owner allegedly issued a “bogus” hall ticket to his daughter that deprived her from taking the Neet exam on Sunday.
Issued two ‘hall tickets’ with different roll numbers, Ms. N. Jeevitha, daughter of M Navarathinaraj of Rasipuram near Namakkal and a plus-2 student who had applied for taking the Neet exam this year, found to her utter dismay that the government-approved private e-seva agency, ‘Digital Sevai’, had issued her a ‘bogus’ hall ticket which she discovered only while being turned out of an exam centre in Salem on Sunday on the ground it was not issued by the CBSE.
A much agonized father of Jeevitha told reporters here on Monday that she had applied through the private e-seva centre for the Neet exam this year online and had paid the owner of the service centre Rs 1400, the Neet exam fee plus Rs 200 as service charges on March 12.
The girl’s father said the service centre owner, one Ms. Kalaichelvi, had first on May 2 given a printout of the hall ticket with the Neet exam centre being Chowdeshwari college in Salem. Later, on May 5 evening, Ms. Kalaichelvi “contacted me on my mobile and said the exam centre for my daughter has been changed to Kottayam in Kerala and gave my daughter another hall ticket,” said Navarathinaraj.
He said in his police complaint that as there was hardly any time to go to Kottayam, his daughter went to the Salem exam centre to take her Neet exam on Sunday (May 6), but was disallowed from writing the exam as the officials there said it was a “bogus” hall ticket. It was later, on inquiring with the service centre, that “we realised that Kalaichelvi without applying to the CBSE for the Neet hall ticket, had prepared two bogus hall tickets and given them to my daughter,” Navarathinaraj said, adding, Kalaichelvi had told them she had used the money paid by them for the Neet exam, to meet some personal expenses.
“My daughter has lost a precious opportunity to take Neet exam and her higher educational career has now become a question mark as she was cheated by the service centre owner,” said Navarathinaraj, adding, he had sought police action against the private service centre for this misdeed.