The Gauhati High Court on Tuesday, November 19, directed ‘Super 30’ fame mathematician Anand Kumar to appear in person before it on November 26 in connection with a PIL filed by four IIT-Guwahati students.
A division bench of the Gauhati High Court comprising Chief Justice Ajay Lamba and Justice AM Bujarbaruah said that if Kumar fails to appear, a bailable warrant will be issued against him, news agency PTI reported.
Amit Goyal, legal counsel of the students said, Kumar had not replied to the charges made by them as directed by the court in its order dated September 21, 2018.
The students had alleged that Anand Kumar had not revealed the names of 26 students who he had claimed to had qualified in the IIT entrance examination in 2018 from his Super-30 institute.
The students also alleged that Kumar had been projecting himself as a ‘messiah’ of poor IIT aspirants by giving manipulated and false results, misusing the simplicity of innocent aspirants and their guardians.
The IIT-Guwahati students, in the PIL, also alleged that each year, a number of students from different parts of the country approach Kumar with the hope that the latter would ensure their entry into the IITs. “However, Kumar instead enrols the students of his coaching institute Ramanujan School of Mathematics by charging a huge amount of about Rs 33,000,” the students alleged.
The PIL also stated that after 2008, Kumar is not running any of the “so-called” Super 30 classes. Whenever IIT results are announced, Kumar appears before the media along with some students of Ramanujam School of Mathematics and other students and claims that they are Super 30 students and have qualified in the IIT entrance exam, it said.
It may be mentioned that a Biopic on Kumar, titled ‘Super 30’ starring Hritik Roshan released earlier this year.
(With Inputs From PTI)