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Admission software hacked, medical student tells court
Tuesday June 19, 2012 08:06:06 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Tuesday was told by a petitioner that the
software developed by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) for
online counselling and admission to post-graduate medical courses
was not foolproof and prone to hacking.
The apex court vacation bench of Justice H.L. Gokhale and Justice
Ranjana Prakash Desai was told by a candidate that the result of
the second round of counselling was allegedly hacked a day before
it was declared June 12.
Petitioner Pankila Mittal's counsel Nushad Ahmed Khan said that
the alleged hacking led to a conclusion that the "software
prepared by the NIC is not foolproof/tamper-free, prone to
hacking/tampering/manipulation/addition/alteration/deletion/modification".
He said that the way the result of the second round of counselling
got allegedly leaked flew into the face of the union health
ministry's contention that the online counselling would be
faceless yet fully transparent and fair.
The petitioner said that though she was allotted a seat in a
Mumbai-based medical college for a post-graduate degree course but
participated in the second round of counselling so that she could
get admission to a discipline of her choice.
Mittal completed all formalities for her admission in the Mumbai
medical college May 16.
Failing to get a better opportunity in the second round of
counselling, the petitioner locked her earlier post-graduate
degree course admission in the Mumbai college.
The result of the allocation of seats and the courses was slated
to be declared on June 12 but June 11 the results were hacked and
were on the internet.
The results so put on the internet showed her being admitted to a
diploma in veneralogy and dermatology where as she had opted for a
post-graduate degree course.
The petitioner told the court that several other candidates had
suffered such down scaling of their courses from post-graduate
MS/MD to diploma courses and vice-versa.
Counsel Rekha Pandey, who appeared for the government, sought time
for taking instruction from the directorate general of health
services.
The matter will come up for hearing Thursday.
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