Likely before fast-track court: Paper leak cases impacted after judge was moved out at key stages

Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the setting up of fast-track courts to ensure swift and stringent punishment for exam fraud in the midst of the students’ protest demanding accountability for the NEET leak.Besides the NEET case, Judge Baliga’s court is also likely to take up other exam fraud cases.Here are three cases which had come before Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Neetu Nagar of Rouse Avenue Courts before the judge was deputed to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) last month. 2003 CAT paper leak STATUS: Still at the stage of “arguments on charge” before a Rouse Avenue Magistrate Court. This is the stage before the framing of charges. Trials start only after charges have been framed by the court. AFFECTED CANDIDATES: More than 1.25 lakh candidates had applied for the