CBSE leak sparks political storm, 34 suspects quizzed
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The board is likely to announce the retest dates on Monday. CBSE officials privy to the matter said that they had received calls and emails from students and parents, especially from across 200 CBSE schools abroad, asking them to hold the retests only in the areas where the leaks were reported.
When asked if other states were contacting the board, a CBSE official said, “We have received emails, text messages from a number of stakeholders for conducting the retest in the areas where the leak took place. But, so far, we do not have specific inputs from the investigation on the exact locations of the leak. We will examine that aspect when we get more information.”
All the people interrogated since the first of the two FIRS was registered on March 27 are Delhi residents. HT is withholding the names of the private school economics teacher and coaching centre owner who were questioned, and those of their institutes because the police said their role is still being investigated.
Accusing the Centre of doing little to check malpractices in the examination system, the Congress asked why the previous CBSE chairperson RK Chaturvedi had been replaced last year even though his term was supposed to end in 2020. “Why did the HRD minister cut short the tenure of previous CBSE chairperson to replace him midway through his tenure,” asked Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.