Mysuru: The Third JMFC Court yesterday granted bail to four accused in the KSOU fake marks card scam. Yashaswini, a resident of Gokulam, Prajwal, a resident of Gokulam and KSOU temporary employee who was sacked following the unearthing of scam, Kanti Sagar of Kolar and Krish alias Krishnamurthy of Chikkamagalur are the ones who have…
KSOU marks card scam: PU College Principal among two more arrested
August 4, 2017Mysuru: Intensifying the probe into the KSOU fake marks card scam, the Jayalakshmipuram Police have arrested two more persons. The arrested have been identified as Pandu Rathod, a PU College Principal at Kalaburagi and Avinash of Hole Alur in Dharwad District. The two were picked up from differented places a couple of days ago and…
“Give me power and three months time, I will get UGC recognition for KSOU”
August 2, 2017Mysuru: Former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and University of Mysore, Prof. K.S. Rangappa said, “I am deeply pained by the plight of lakhs of students of KSOU who are in doldrums today. I have said this many times in the past and I am saying it again. I am ready to face…
KSOU Asst. Registrar (Evaluation) suspended
August 2, 2017Mysuru: The fake marks card racket at KSOU is acquiring gargantuan proportions with each passing day. After KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and Health Department official Mallanna were arrested on Saturday last, KSOU Assistant Registrar (Evaluation) Siddaraju was suspended. And, added to this, an order has been passed to dismiss temporary employee Shivanna. As…
KSOU fake marks card racket: Hubballi Co-ordinator, Health Dept. official arrested
August 1, 2017Mysuru: The Jayalakshmipuram Police have arrested two more persons in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) fake marks card racket case. One is KSOU Co-ordinator in Hubballi Manjunath Kulkarni and the other is the Health Department official Mallanna, who is said to have got the job by giving fake marks card. Inspector Ravindra arrested both…
MGP to take up cases of student-victims of KSOU
July 28, 2017Mysuru: The report of Justice K. Bhakthavatsala shows that students who were admitted to MPhil, PhD, BE, BTech, MTech, Diploma in Engineering and other technical professional programmes of the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) are facing severe problems since the degrees are not recognised. Despite warnings from the Distance Education Council way back in 2011,…
Panel to look into fake marks card racket: Doubts about the Committee as both VC and Registrar on leave
July 28, 2017Mysuru: KSOU has constituted a 12-member teachers’ committee to look into admission, marks card printing, valuation, coding and decoding, custodians of confidential papers and convocation. In an agreement with a Mumbai-based company IEM the work was entrusted to them in 2013. However, nearly 60,000 to 70,000 marks cards printed by them has been cancelled as…
KSOU students threaten stir
July 28, 2017Mysuru: Even as the KSOU fake marks card racket is making news, the aggrieved students of the same institution are up in arms threatening to launch an agitation if the recognition to the University is not restored immediately. It may be recalled that the recognition to the KSOU had been withdrawn since the last four…
KSOU fake marks card racket: Three more non-teaching staff taken into custody
July 27, 2017Mysuru: The Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) fake marks card racket is taking a new turn every day. The CCB Police, who are investigating the racket, took three members of the KSOU Non-Teaching Staff Association into custody yesterday. Suspecting that they are also involved in the degree and post-graduate degrees fake marks cards case, the…
Four more nabbed in KSOU fake marks card racket: Skeletons keep tumbling; More you dig, more you get
July 25, 2017Mysuru: The rot in the fake marks card racket in the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) is getting deeper and murkier, as more and more skeletons tumble out. With the City Crime Branch (CCB) successfully nabbing four more persons, including a temporary employee of KSOU, some of the facts are coming to light. And,…
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