Is A Ghost Really Holding Up Replies To RTI Queries? 'Yes,' Claims Gwalior Medical College

If you've ever been in a government school or a college, there have to be spooky stories of an old ghost haunting a room or part of a building. But they feel like made-up stories as you go about your daily life.

But looks like this medical college took the stories of ghosts way too seriously and now this is fudging up the entire administrative system of this educational facility.

Gajra Raja Medical College in Gwalior is claiming that the institution is not able to reply to any of the RTIs or provide important documents because the record room is haunted by the clerk's ghost. According to TOI, this is one of many excuses that have been doled out.

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RTI activists seeking to investigate the anomalies in MBBS admissions are baffled over the replies and excuses that this Gwalior college has been providing when asked about the alleged fraudulent admissions in domicile quota.

Pankaj Jain, a healthcare activist, who has been trying to get his documents for the past three years told TOI, "First, they said the documents have been seized by CBI, then they said the clerk handling it had been arrested by CBI. Now they are saying that the clerk died by suicide in the room where the documents were kept and it¡¯s now haunted by his ghost so they are scared of opening the locks."

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The activists are claiming that the college is making up these stories and have lost all documents of several students from several batches who graduated with MBBS and MS degrees.

Another person had also filed an RTI in 2018. However, the college stated that they could not find any sort of information pertaining to the 1994 MBBS batch. About this activist Jain told OIT, "Our co-activist continued to pursue this matter over the course of 2.5 years - through first appeal and several rounds of correspondence with the college. He was even asked to provide a letter to the college stating that he had no intention of harming the reputation of the college."

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This is a grave matter of concern since a government college already has very few seats and if the documents belonging to these doctors aren't found then that could spell trouble in the future.

In any case, trying to ignore an important matter by fake claims of ghosts is very strange.