Thiruvananthapuram: The results of the undergraduate examination written by Shivarenjith, the main accused in the University College stabbing case, have come under a cloud of suspicion.
Mr Shivarenjith had failed miserably in the first semester in 2014 but graduated in 2016 with flying colours clearing all the exams.
He passed the first semester in his fourth attempt and had to take the supplementary route to clear all papers of subsequent years. However, the final results showed that he scored 70 per cent marks in the fifth and sixth semesters.
The unwritten answer scripts recovered from the house of Shivarenjith was that of 2016 examination.
Meanwhile, police recorded the statements of previous principals of the college in the case. Cantonment CI who probed the case had recommended a crime branch probe in the case.
His report pointed out that there was a need to identify whether more people were involved in the case, and it needed a more competent authority.
The 2014 batch BSc chemistry student had passed in only one of the six papers in the first semester. In the second attempt, he cleared three of them and the rest in the fourth attempt.
However, in the fifth semester, he scored 80 marks in physical chemistry, 63 in inorganic chemistry, 81 in ethical chemistry and 74 marks in labs.
In the sixth semester, he scored 78 marks each for organic chemistry second paper and physical chemistry third paper while he got 80 marks in projects and internal assessment.
Meanwhile, Pranav who was ranked second in the civil police officer test of the Public Service Commission (PSC) in which Shivarenjith came first, will be added as an accused in the case related to the recovery of answer scripts from the house of Shivarenjith. The involvement of teachers is also under the police scanner.
Meanwhile, Kerala University authorities are yet to hand over the answer papers of Shivarenjith, Nizam and Pranav, for probing the alleged examination malpractices.
