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Bihar VC gets bail in exam scam

Soroor Ahmed in Patna

Lalit Narain Mithila University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Abdul Moghni was granted bail by the Patna high court on Friday afternoon.

Professor Moghni was arrested on May 14 following a raid at his Patna residence.

He is among the 26 main accused - including former minister of state for education Jitan Ram Manjhi and education secretary S K Negi -- in what is now known as the B Ed examination case.

Granting bail, Justice Aftab Alam held that "if all the allegations against him are taken to be true, I fail to understand how it is a case of a criminal conspiracy." He rejected the plea of the vigilance department that the interrogation is incomplete and that the accused would tamper with the records.

Professor Moghni's lawyer Shakil Ahmed Khan charged that his client, along with the former minister and education secretary, were being unnecessarily harassed.

Governor B M Lal, who is also the chancellor of all the universities in Bihar, had ordered a vigilance inquiry following complaints of irregularities in the training college examination in Arer, Madhubani district of north Bihar.

The Bharatiya Janata Party state unit held former governor A R Kidwai responsible for the 'mushrooming growth of minority teachers' training colleges' in Bihar.

The party also demanded that the vigilance probe look more closely into the role of State Education Minister Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav.

UNI

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