Three arrested in paper leak case; CBSE suspends official
BY Abhay Singh2 April 2018 12:12 AM IST
Abhay Singh2 April 2018 5:44 AM IST
NEW DELHI: An official of the central education board CBSE was suspended and three men were arrested on Sunday over the leak of Class 12 economics board exam papers. The suspended CBSE official was in charge of the exam centre where the leak took place, the government said.
KS Rana, the official in charge of the exam centre in outer Delhi's Bawana, was suspended, Union Education Secretary Anil Swarup tweeted on Sunday evening.
Three people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the CBSE Class 12 Economics paper leak case, the Delhi Police crime branch has said. One of them is an Economics tutor who runs a coaching centre in outer Delhi's Bawana, police said. The two others teach Physics and Maths at a convent school in the same neighbourhood in north-west Delhi, the police said.
The Bawana coaching centre owner Tauqeer, and the two private school teachers Rishab and Rohit have been accused of leaking the Class 12 Economics paper an-hour-and-a-half before the exam was to start on March 26.
Joint Commissioner of Police (crime) Alok Kumar stated that Tauqeer leaked the question paper before the commencement of the examination to his tuition student who further circulated to his friends. "We have got two-day police custody of the three accused," said Kumar.
Police claimed that they are investigating the money trail in the case. "We are probing who the beneficiaries are," said Kumar. Police sources claimed that during the investigation of more than 10 Whats App groups they came to know about one beneficiary (student) and from the questioning police team got the first clue which led to the arrest. "On Saturday evening after the names of the accused popped up during the investigation, police immediately sent their teams to the village, where the school is situated, and three accused were taken to crime branch office in East Delhi where they broke down during questioning," said a police officer.
Crime branch officers have fanned out across the National Capital Region or NCR to raid five locations – apart from Delhi – in connection with the CBSE paper leak.
The police say in all some 53 students, and nine teachers have been questioned so far. In Jharkhand's Chatra district, 12 people, including Class 10 and 11 students, have been questioned for allegedly accessing the leaked question papers, the police said. See inside
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