Principal, 3 others held for helping Class 10 students

ROHTAK: The Rohtak police have arrested four employees, including a school principal for providing solved papers to Class 10 board students of the Board of School Education Haryana (BSEH) inside an exam centre at Chidi village in district on Wednesday.

The arrested four persons have been identified as school principal Manoj, clerk Joginder, Group-d employee Manjeet and one other staffer from the exam centre after registering a case under Sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent), 418 (cheating with knowledge that wrongful loss may ensue to person whose interest offender is bound to protect) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

Police recovered a computer, a printer-cum-photostat machine with solved paper along with question paper from the school premises of the exam centre.

Rohtak additional superintendent of police (ASP) Heminder Kumar Meena said the Class 10 Hindi exam was conducted at the district’s Government Girls’ Senior Secondary School at Chidi village on Wednesday afternoon.

“A tip-off was received that the exam staff, including the school principal, was providing solved papers to students sitting for exam inside the centre. After receiving information, we reached the exam centre at Chidi village at around 2.40pm to investigate the matter,” he added.

The ASP said during investigation, it came to light that the staff posted inside the school, including principal Manoj, clerk Jogendra and a Group-d employee Manjeet Nandal with his other colleagues, were providing copies of solved paper to the examinees inside the school.

After scrutinising the clerical room in the school, the investigation team recovered solved papers of other exams (that had already taken place) from inside the room and a lot of photocopies of answer keys and question papers were found.

The investigation team also recovered cheat slips from outside the windows of the exam centre.

Apart from this, TGT teacher Parvesh Kumar, who is posted in Rohtak, was also let inside the exam centre without valid permission to assist them in copying was also found.

Earlier on Monday, 457 cases of unfair means were reported and 11 exam superintendents and a clerk were relieved from their duties for negligence during the exam. A Class 10 student was also caught red-handed by the flying squad of the BSEH for cheating during the English examination at Government Senior Secondary School in Fatehabad’s Bhuthan exam hall.

In another case, the authorities had recovered a dummy gun from two youths, who were throwing answer chits to their relatives at an exam centre in Jhajjar’s Bahadurgarh. Police had arrested both.

BSEH chairman Jagbir Singh had said they cancelled the English exam for students who had appeared at an exam centre in Hisar’s Satrod after all objective answers written by the students were found to be the same.