Father of three gets three-year jail for cheating in CBSE exam 15 years ago
<span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">Cheating in Class X examination 15 years ago has caught up with a man, now a father of three, who has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a Delhi court.
Metropolitan magistrate Sanjeev Kumar sentenced Asif to three years’ imprisonment for cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery for having a juvenile impersonate him and appear in Xth CBSE Social Science paper in 1998.
The court also convicted Asif’s co-accused who was caught writing his test and was declared to be a juvenile at the time of offence. His case was forwarded to <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and he was directed to appear before it on 19 November.
Asif’s plea for release on probation on the ground that he has to look after his father, wife, three children and is facing trial for last 15 years was also declined by the court. The court, in its order on Thursday, said reduction of sentence on ground of long pending trial is not justifiable.
It, however, released him on bail till 6 December.
Asif’s co-accused was also held guilty on same counts but the court didn’t pronounce sentence against him. Under The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, proceedings pending against a juvenile in any court when the Act came into force shall continue. If found guilty, the court shall record its findings but not pronounce the sentence and instead forward the juvenile to <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the JJB for appropriate orders.
The prosecution’s case was that Asif and the co-convict entered into a conspiracy and on 25 March, 1998, the juvenile impersonated himself as Asif and appeared in Social Science examination for class X conducted by CBSE at Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Kailash Nagar here.
One of the invigilators and vice-principal of the school also deposed in the court that on checking the roll numbers of the candidates during the examination, it was found that the picture affixed on the hall ticket was not of Asif as it did not match with other documents.
The court noted that the opinion of <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">handwriting experts proved that the answer sheet of <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">social science was written by <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the juvenile convict and not Asif.
Metropolitan magistrate Sanjeev Kumar sentenced Asif to three years’ imprisonment for cheating, criminal conspiracy and forgery for having a juvenile impersonate him and appear in Xth CBSE Social Science paper in 1998.
The court also convicted Asif’s co-accused who was caught writing his test and was declared to be a juvenile at the time of offence. His case was forwarded to <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) and he was directed to appear before it on 19 November.
Asif’s plea for release on probation on the ground that he has to look after his father, wife, three children and is facing trial for last 15 years was also declined by the court. The court, in its order on Thursday, said reduction of sentence on ground of long pending trial is not justifiable.
It, however, released him on bail till 6 December.
Asif’s co-accused was also held guilty on same counts but the court didn’t pronounce sentence against him. Under The Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, proceedings pending against a juvenile in any court when the Act came into force shall continue. If found guilty, the court shall record its findings but not pronounce the sentence and instead forward the juvenile to <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the JJB for appropriate orders.
The prosecution’s case was that Asif and the co-convict entered into a conspiracy and on 25 March, 1998, the juvenile impersonated himself as Asif and appeared in Social Science examination for class X conducted by CBSE at Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Kailash Nagar here.
One of the invigilators and vice-principal of the school also deposed in the court that on checking the roll numbers of the candidates during the examination, it was found that the picture affixed on the hall ticket was not of Asif as it did not match with other documents.
The court noted that the opinion of <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">handwriting experts proved that the answer sheet of <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">social science was written by <span data-style="border-bottom: 1px solid #0000FF !important;text-decoration:underline !important;color:#0000FF !important">the juvenile convict and not Asif.