BISE Hyderabad Finds 43 Tampered Mark Sheets Among LUMHS Admitted Students

The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Hyderabad has confirmed that the mark sheets of 43 students admitted to Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS), Jamshoro, following MDCAT 2026 had been altered, officials said. The findings emerged from a verification exercise covering 48 students whose academic records had been called into question.

According to the board, only five of the 48 mark sheets examined turned out to be genuine, while the remaining 43 had been tampered with. The verification was carried out at the request of the LUMHS director of admissions, who had asked the BISE Hyderabad controller of examinations to urgently check the records of the students concerned.

The matter reached the courts after a female candidate who scored 150 out of 180 marks in MDCAT filed a petition with the Sindh High Court. In her petition, she pointed out that another candidate had secured 869 marks in the Intermediate Examination 2026, yet a mark sheet dated August 19, 2026 showed 930 marks, a gap of 61 marks.

A division bench comprising Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon and Justice Mohammad Jaffer Raza observed that the issue required verification and compliance with the relevant regulations. The court directed the authorities to resolve the discrepancy without delay and to ensure that any decision affecting a candidate's eligibility rested on official records. It also instructed officials to give affected students an opportunity to be heard before any decision was taken.

Following the court's directions, the admissions office at LUMHS moved to have the records of the 48 students independently checked. The board's findings, which confirmed that the overwhelming majority of the documents had been altered, were subsequently shared with the university.

The case highlights the scrutiny surrounding medical university admissions in Sindh, where entrance test scores and intermediate results are central to eligibility. It was not immediately clear what action the university or the board would take regarding the students whose mark sheets were found to have been tampered with, or how the affected candidates would be able to respond to the findings.