Police said, the accused Shah Nawaz (54), a resident of Hennur, had utilised the loopholes in the academic system, bribed government officials and cheated students to make money.
Nawaz was an attender in a government first grade college. In 2004, he was dismissed for allegedly supporting malpractice. He had learnt how to process applications to start educational institutes. He sought permission to start Sathyajyothi Education Society in the name of Mohammad Yaseen and appointed his wife Zabeeb Taj as vice-chairman and his seven sons as Board of Directors. The Society began functioning from 2003. Permission was granted to run a PUC college from 2004 offering Arts and Commerce and Science in 2006. Currently, there are 24 students in the three disciplines, a strength less than the number fixed by the PU Board to run a college.
He started offering a correspondence course at the PU level and bypassed norms by bribing and managed to complete the examination process including declaring results. When students started pressing for hall tickets last week and staged a protest, he started cooking up stories. Nawaz collected Rs 6,000 from 226 students for the correspondence course.