To ensure that the college does not see a repeat of the fake marksheet scandal that rocked Ramjas College two years ago,the administration has called in forensic experts to check the admission documents submitted by students this year. We got a team of forensic experts last year as well and it deterred students from producing fake documents. This year,too,the experts will be in the central admission committee room and we will provide them computers and any other assistance that they might need, college principal Rajendra Prasad said. The Delhi University will wrap up registration process for undergraduate courses by Wednesday,and the first cut-off list is expected to come on June 27. The help of forensic experts is extremely important today. We get data of a students Class XII marks from the university,but it is very easy for a student to use the marksheet of another and seek admission, Prasad said. With field training at the Central Forensic Science Laboratory and multiple degrees in the subject,V C Misra has been working as a forensic document,handwriting and fingerprints expert for more than 23 years. Apart from teaching forensic sciences at Amity University,Misra has also been summoned by various courts as witness in several cases. From third week of July,however,Misra and his team of forensic experts will be at Ramjas College. Misra said,A digital camera and an ultraviolet lamp are two tools that are of immense importance. Most documents including Class XII marksheets have some security features. For instance,a particular kind of ink is used,which is not visible to the naked eye but glows red when the paper is put under ultraviolet rays. If the marksheets are forged,the documents do not have such features. Helped by his brother and three others,Misra said on an average they need 7 to 8 minutes for every document. Last year,we scrutinised documents within five minutes as there was so much rush in the college, Misra said.
