New Delhi: The Delhi high court on Saturday (August 1) transferred Special Judge Anu Grover Baliga just after a week she was appointed to preside over the a fast-track court for hearing paper leak cases. Her transfer is part of a transfer exercise involving 138 judicial officers, the Times of India reported. Judge Baliga had taken charge of the court on July 25, after the high court designated a special court on July 23 to hear criminal cases related to paper leaks and other unfair practices in public examinations. According to a transfer order issued by the Delhi high court, Judge Baliga has been posted to a special court constituted under the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Act to hear terrorism-related cases. Special Judges Vikas Dhull, Prashant Sharma, Pulastya Pramachala, Kiran Bansal and Amit Bansal have also been transferred to NIA courts, the report said.Special Judge Ajay Gupta, who had earlier been hearing paper leak cases, including cases related to NEET, will take over the fast track court from Judge Baliga.Amid widespread protests against paper leaks and calls for former education minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced that paper leak cases will be heard in a designated fast-track court.The fast-track court was established at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Courts to hear cases under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, and other related offences. All such cases were directed to be transferred to this court.However, The Wire has previously reported how the fast-track court in Delhi got off to a rocky start on July 27 as the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which is investigating another exam paper leak case, failed to show up for the very first hearing. On that day, two bail applications in the case were to be heard.The proceedings were adjourned at the request of the defence counsel. The matter is listed on August 3 for consideration of the CBI’s chargesheet and the bail pleas of two accused.The fast track court was being seen as a “band-aid measure” by the Cockroach Janta Party, which led the protests for educational reforms after a series of failures in the conduct of competitive examinations in the country.Former minister and Congress Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh had also slammed the government for coming up with fast-track court as a solution for the paper leak crisis. “With what face is the Modi government tom-toming fast-track courts as a solution to the crisis of paper-leaks? Its own CBI is showing zero initiative in investigating and prosecuting these cases,” Ramesh wrote on X.