Three B.Tech students questioned for hacking university website
RAJOURI, Dec 2: Three B.Tech students are being
interrogated by the police and are facing an in-house enquiry as well for
allegedly hacking the data system of the College
of Engineering and Technology (COET)
of the State-run Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah (BGSB) University, Rajouri, in Jammu
Informed sources said the Rajouri police detained the
students earlier this week for “questioning” to investigate their role in
cracking the administrator codes of their college website and IT system. They
allegedly hacked the system and uploaded on the COET domain a press release
that, according to Vice-Chancellor Prof. Irshad Ahmad Hamal, was “two-year-old”
and aimed at “defaming the University.”
The 5th semester students, detained and questioned
‘informally’ by the police, include the son of an Associate Professor of
Hospital Administration at the Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences
(SKIMS), Soura, Srinagar.Superintendent of Police Rajouri, Mubassir Latifi,
confirmed that BGSB University Registrar, Mohammad Rashid Choudhary, approached
SHO Rajouri on November 27 with a verbal complaint that the COET website had
been hacked and objectionable material criminally uploaded. He, however,
asserted that the police neither registered an FIR nor arrested the suspects in
the absence of a written complaint.
“SHO Rajouri advised the university staff to file a
written complaint,” Mr. Latifi told The Hindu, “making it clear that
police would not launch an informal investigation.” “On November 29th, BGSB
officials came again, this time with a letter from the Registrar, that the VC
had constituted a committee which had started in-house investigation. They
wanted the police to stop and wait for findings of the enquiry,” Mr. Latifi
said.
Even as Mr. Latifi said the police did not act,
acquaintances of the three students claimed that they remained in custody for
four days, facing questions as to why and how they had executed the hacking.
This was also corroborated by one of the detained student’s family members on
condition of anonymity. They said a detenu’s father, along with a senior SKIMS
official, was camping in Jammu
Prof. Hamal confirmed hacking of the COET data system,
but maintained that the website had been restored.
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