Anand Kumar founder of ‘Super 30’ is fined of Rs 50,000 for not appearing before Gauhati HC

The Gauhati
High Court had fined of Rs 50,000 on ‘Super 30′ founder and noted mathematician
Anand Kumar for not appearing before it on November 26 in connection with a
Public Interest Litigation (PIL), stated a report.

The PIL was
filed in September 2018 by four students of the Indian Institute of
Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) who claimed that Kumar had cheated them under the
pretext of admission to his education programme ‘Super 30’.

Patna-based
institute ‘Super 30’ was founded by Anand Kumar to help students from poor
economic backgrounds prepare for the IIT entrance exams.

The
institute claims to provide coaching for Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) to a
select group of 30 students from an economically underprivileged background.

A division
bench comprising Chief Justice Ajay Lamba and Justice A M Bujarbaruah had on
November 19 directed Kumar to personally appear before the court on Tuesday.
Since he did not appear before the court on the said date, the High Court had
ordered Kumar to pay a compensation of amount Rs 10,000 each to five students
and their guardians who claimed to be victims of Kumar, sources said.

Notably, the
next date of hearing in the case has been fixed to November 28.

The students
in their PILrepoted before the court that Kumar has not disclosed the names of
its 26 students of ‘Super 30’ who had cleared the IIT entrance examinations in
2018.

Their
counsel Amit Goyal said Kumar had not replied to the students’ allegations
despite the court’s direction on September 21, 2018.

The four
IIT-Guwahati students had approached the HC alleging that due to the wrong
projection by Anand Kumar, each year a number of students from different parts
of the country go to him with full faith and hope that he will help them in
qualifying for IIT.

The
aspirants on reaching Patna were, however, made to take admission in his
coaching institute – Ramanujam School of Mathematics and each of them were
charged Rs 33,000 by Kumar, the PIL said.

The PIL also
alleged that Kumar is not running any ‘Super 30’ class after 2008. But when IIT
entrance examination results are announced, he appears before the media with
some students of Ramanujam School of Mathematics and other students claiming
that they are from the institute and have qualified in the IIT entrance exam.