Apart from withholding the hall tickets of these 40 second and third year students, the university has done little else but wade through 1,000-odd TYBCom admission forms it has received from students of 70 other colleges for the 1998-99 academic year. Though the matter was last discussed at a Management Council (MC) meeting on April 23, no police complaints for forgery have been lodged. Neither have show-cause notices been dispatched to the 40 students.

The university detected 40 cases where students of five colleges had faked marksheets to secure admission to the IDE. Most of these were from the Third Year Bachelor of Commerce course. Though three students had collected their hall tickets by the time news of the scam surfaced, hall tickets of 37 others werewithheld.

However, far from exhibiting any urgency, the university says it will first issue show cause notices to the 40 students and, depending on their replies, report the matter to the police or not.

At the April 23 MC meeting, it was stated that the university had finished sorting out 1,000-odd TYBCom admission forms. After this, IDE officials will visit the colleges for physical verification and only then will show cause notices be issued to students whose credentials are suspect. The notice will ask them why the matter should not be reported to the police and why their admission itself should not be cancelled.

A letter will also be sent to the Controller of Examinations asking him to withhold the students' results pending further instructions. A decision on reporting cases to the police will depend on the Management Council and/or the vice-chancellor.

Meanwhile, the university still has to sort out forgeries in TYBA as well as second year and post-graduate courses as well. This is despite thefact that second year exams have already got over while the TYBCom exams are underway with TYBA exams scheduled for next month.

Denying there is any delay, Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr Naresh Chandra said the ``necessary action is being taken''.