The police have arrested a dozen miscreants from Bihar and Jharkhand including a prominent leader of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP), the students wing of BJP in connection with the leak of question papers of CBSE for Mathematics (Class X) and Economics (Class XII) .
This information was revealed by Akhilesh B Variar, Superintendent of Police, Chatra district (Jharkhand) in a press conference on Saturday. The exams were held on 28 March and after reports about the leak, the CBSE had cancelled the papers.
The SP told media persons that leaked question paper had reached Chatra from Patna on WhatsApp. Twelve people have been arrested in this connection. They include a leader of ABVP who is also owner of a coaching centre in Chatra. The arrested persons include nine minor students who have been sent to a remand home in Hazaribagh.
ABVP leader has been identified as Satish Pandey who is Chatra district coordinator of ABVP and owner of a local study centre Study Vision. The district Police chief said it was Pandey who took money from students for the leaked questions. He had sent the 28th March question paper to students through WhatsApp on 27th March itself.
The SP also said that Pandey had helped in sneaking in solved questions in a school where CBSE exam was being conducted on 28th March. This resulted in cheating in the exam hall at the school.
He also informed that the SIT constituted by the Chatra Police arrested two from Patna — Gaya resident Amit Kumar and Chhapra resident Akash Kumar. Both, he said, were in touch with education mafia in Delhi.
Only on Friday, the CBSE had announced new date (April 25) for fresh exam of Economics and said that retest of Mathematics, if necessary, would be held in July and for the region of Delhi, Haryana and NCR only. Many had questioned that on what ground the CBSE hinted to hold retest of Class X paper only for Delhi, Haryana and NCR region.
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