‘Super 30’ fame Anand Kumar fined ₹ 50,000 by Gauhati High Court in a cheating case
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November 26: Hrithik Roshan’s latest flick “Super 30” inspired by the ‘rags to riches’ life story of the mathematics teacher and mentor, Anand Kumar has made him a household name in India. But Anand Kumar, the man behind the buzz and the contribution of his innovative ‘Super 30’ coaching initiative in forging exceptional students out of the poorest of poor individuals, who would otherwise have been lost in the sea of mediocrity and defeated by their challenging circumstances seemed to be in the headlines for wrong reasons.

Anand Kumar of Super-30 was fined ₹ 50,000 by the Gauhati High Court on Tuesday for failing in connection with PIL filed by four students of IIT-G (Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati) accusing him of cheating. The court also ordered him to be personally present on the next date of hearing on 28 November, 2019. In September last year, four students of Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati had moved the Gauhati HC alleging that Kumar, who claims to be a “mathematician”, was cheating innocent IIT aspirants and their guardians by “giving manipulated and false results”.

The petitioners alleged: “Because of the wrong projection given by Anand Kumar, each year a number of students from different parts of the country approach him with full faith and hope that he, who seems to be an IIT Baba, will help them in qualifying the IIT entrance exam. But after reaching there, Sri Anand Kumar took their admission in his coaching Institute Ramanujam School of Mathematics by charging a huge amount of about Rs 33,000 per student in the name of teaching them”.

It was stated by the petitioners that, “It is relevant to mention herein that in the year 2018 also, Sri Kumar claimed that from his Super 30, out of 30 students, 26 students cleared the IIT entrance exam but till today Sri Kumar has not disclosed the names of 26 IIT entrance qualified students.”

A division bench, comprising Chief Justice Ajai Lamba and Justice A M Bujarbaruah, said the court was “displeased” with the non-compliance of its order of November 19 directing Kumar to be personally present before it. The bench had said, “We shall be constrained on issuing a bailable warrant of arrest for his production” if he did not appear on 26 November.”

During a hearing on Tuesday, the court directed Kumar to be personally present before it on November 28 and pay compensation of Rs.10,000 each to the “students and guardians” who have been cheated by Mr Kumar in the name of Super 30.