In a major lapse, about 20 students of Tikaram Jagannath College at Khadki have received their hall tickets for the repeaters’ exam on September 29, without their scanned photographs. While Maharashtra State Board officials and college authorities are blaming each other, sources in the board said that such a lapse is unacceptable, as hall tickets with manually pasted photographs can be misused to place dummy candidates during the exam.

The college has decided to check valid photo Id of the students before allowing them to sit for the exam. Pic/Dattatraya Adhalge

A couple of hall tickets, which these reporters saw on Thursday, have the signature and stamp of the college principal, despite the missing pictures. When asked about this, principal Arun Mokashi did not reply. Now, the college authorities are asking students to paste their photographs on the hall tickets and only after verifying the students’ identities they will be allowed to appear for the exam.