Deputy chairman of the Legislative Council was debarred from one PUC course, enrolled for another and managed to complete a two-year course in one. How did he do it?
Deputy chairman of the Legislative Council was debarred from one PUC course, enrolled for another and managed to complete a two-year course in one. How did he do it?
Puttanna, the deputy chairman of the Legislative Council managed to enrol himself for three different PUC courses in three different colleges at the same time. How he managed to do that baffles even senior officials in the PUC Board.
For Puttanna, English was always the sore point. He consistently flunked the subject and ended up fabricating marks. MiD DAY has already reported how he had managed to hoodwink Bangalore University and get admission to a post-graduation course despite failing in English for his II BA exams.
Hanky panky
That's not the end of the story. There's a prequel. Puttanna was a science student in V V Puram Pre-university College between 1984 and 1986.u00a0 When he wrote the second PU exams in September 1986 (Reg. no. LA037 334822), English haunted him as usual and he was caught for malpractice and debarred from writing the exams.
But undeterred, Puttanna managed to get a PUC pass certificate in a year's time. Records in the PU Board say he passed his second PU exams in September 1987 as an arts student from Government Central Junior College (Reg no. 463832 Centre no. 378). But there's no mention of his admission in the college records.
"It's like a miracle," said an officer in the PU board. "A debarred student is not supposed to take at least two subsequent exams. But here's a candidate who has cleared the two-year course in a single year from a different college in a different stream."
Even supposing he had joined the PU course afresh by concealing the malpractice case, he needed two full years to complete the course. "He is sure to have done some hanky-panky," said the officer.
There's more. Puttanna's name has appeared in a JOC (job-oriented course, equivalent to PUC) in Sri Jagadguru Renukacharya College in the same academic years.u00a0 He passed his first and second years and his role numbers were 24/86-87 and 24/87-88.
Taking note
S G Hegde, commissioner of PU education, said: "It's the rarest of rare cases. It needs a thorough investigation before we arrive at any conclusion and the board will seriously look in to it."
Puttanna finally joined a degree course in arts at the Government Science College, producing a pass certificate in PUC arts, in 1988.
Visweswara Hegde Kagari, minister for primary and secondary education, said, "We can annul the results and impound the marks card if the candidate is found guilty. Let me go through the case and find out the facts."
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