Ab initio something wasn’t right about the Greater Noida-based Galgotias University (GU), established by special legislation of the Uttar Pradesh legislative assembly in 2011. Impressed by this private university’s website that displays excellent infra-structure and claims an impressive enrolment of 15,000 happy and evidently satisfied students and lavish double spread ads displaying more of the same in India Today, your editors wrote several emails, letters to the university’s founder chancellor Suneel Galgotia and other Galgotia scions for access to report on this spectacular varsity that has seemingly mushroomed overnight. However, all these efforts proved futile. The Galgotias have remained obstinately incommunicado. In the circumstances, suspicion was aroused that the management of this 15-year-old university had something to hide.

This suspicion was proven right by the sheer naivete and foolishness of the GU management to attempt to pass off a robotic dog christened Orion as its own AI innovation, developed by the university’s Centre of Excellence, at India’s first three-day AI Impact Summit 2026 convened in Delhi. Unsurprisingly, this blatant plagia-rism was quickly outed by the august audience and Orion was discovered to be a replica of a robotic dog designed and built by the Huangzhou (China)-based Unitree Ro-botics (estb. 2017). When this brazen act of fraud was discovered, the embarrassed AI Summit management was obliged to expel the disgraced varsity from its stall at the summit. And far removed from the empathetic coverage it might have received from EducationWorld, this contretemps rained negative media coverage upon GU including a lead editorial in the venerable Times of India titled ‘GalgotAI’ (February 19), and respected education commentators including Maheshwar Peri and R.N. Bhaskar fulminating against fake universities, peddling fake degrees.

Indeed, God pays his debts.