IIT JEE and selection process

When I read a news on TOI (11 May) about a boy who had made a mistake of ticking OC instead of OBC I recollected reading this last year.

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Last Updated On: 20 Jun 2012
About eight hundred OBC quota candidates who qualified IITJEE exam have been pulled out of the admission process this year. This followed after the JEE committee strictly warned against the fake OBC certificates. The JEE committee conducts the joint entrance exam for all IITs.
About 4,805 OBC candidates got through the IIT JEE this year. However, after the withdrawals only 4,000 OBC students remain in the quest for admission to the premier institutes. All of the 2,604 seats reserved at the IITs under this category have been filled in the first round of counseling.
Sources revealed that a majority of those who withdrew from the counseling process did so because they were afraid of getting caught with fake certificates. One out of every six OBC candidates who had cleared the IIT JEE either withdrew from the process or was asked to switch to the general category.
Almost 200 candidates requested to be moved to the general category where they would have to compete for seats on the basis of merit. However, the remaining six hundred students did not register for the counseling process. This year has seen 500 more withdrawals than the 2011 admission process.
The JEE committee had earlier cracked the whip on fake OBC certificates and had issued a warning that if candidates were found to have fake certificates, they would be barred o secure admission in IITs for life. Another reason for the withdrawals was that within the quota, candidates coming from families with an annual income less than Rs.4.5 lakh (excluding salary from agriculture or a government job) come under the non creamy layer category. These candidates are eligible for government sponsorship and professional benefit schemes.
A proposal was earlier made to increase the limit to Rs. 9 lakh for rural and Rs.12 lakh for urban areas. However, this did not come into effect, forcing students who were expecting this to withdraw from the admission process.
Officials from the JEE committee revealed that they had issued a warning after receiving complaints about candidates using fake certificates. The committee verified the complaints by cross checking the OBC commissions’ website, only to find that the complaints were true.
Candidates, who get through the IIT JEE under reserved categories, need to submit their category certificates via post at the time of counseling. June 10, 2012 was the last date to register for the counseling process, while final allotment of seats was made on June 17, 2012. Almost 5.07 lakh students had applied for the exam this year, seeking admission to the 9,647 seats at the IITs, including ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU.

This year with the JEE main being the criteria for selection to appear for the Advanced Exam, including all the categories 1.5 lakh students have been ranked. The verification of certificate is done only at the time of counselling. 

What if the student had ticked OBC  instead of OC ?

Is he not hampering the chances of someone?

By the time IIT calls for counselling and by the time the fake certificates are scrutinised, the fraud ester has dampened the chances of a deserving student. 

It's not only this, 

Does the system have fool proof method to check the genuinity of the non creamy layer? 

Apart from the OC category who get selected in IITs and NITs no one else can claim to be meritorious. Must this quota system prevail, with so many loop holes? 

Can IIT JEE change its selection process.. and give equal chance to all without bias...?