EWS admission scam: Proceedings against 5 accused dropped

STATING THAT the trial court "misdirected itself" by summoning five mothers as accused persons in the alleged case of economically weaker section (EWS) admission scam in the capital, the sessions court has dropped proceedings against the five. Additional Sessions Judge Vidya Prakash, quashing the summoning order by passed by the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate on alleged criminal conspiracy under the IPC including others, said there is "no document whatsoever" filed by the police "which may connect them" with the alleged charges. "The offence of conspiracy cannot be fastened against merely on the basis of assumption and presumption or merely because of the fact that their wards got admitted in nursery class in EWS quota, in the absence of any material to support the same," ASJ Prakash observed.