Delhi Police grills paperleak kingpin
TEST OF CHARACTER Coaching centre owner named in CBSE complaint; students take to streets, retest dates soon
The Delhi Police were on Thursday questioning the owner of a coaching centre who was named in a complaint by the CBSE, which was forced to order retests for classes 10 and 12 after a leak of question papers.
The owner who has an institute in the city’s Rajinder Nagar area was a Delhi University passout and suspected to have leaked the Class 12 economics paper, an official said. He used to teach maths and economics and was one of the main suspects, said the official privy to the probe being carried out by the Delhi Police’s crime branch. “We have questioned 25-30 people, 18 students, five tutors and others,” special commissioner of police (crime branch) RP Upadhyaya said.
Police were trying to establish the trail — who leaked the paper, how was it transmitted and who were the beneficiaries, he said.
“We have no information that
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CBSE paper leak is pan-India, but if such a thing emerges, we will send teams outside Delhi,” Upadhyaya said.
While Class 10 students would have to re-appear in mathematics, Class 12 students will repeat economics exam, the Central Board of Secondary Education said on Wednesday, in an order that impacts around than two million children.
So far, police had not found a clue that pointed to the involvement of anyone in CBSE, the official, familiar with the probe, said
“It is too early to say that CBSE officials are involved or not, but the investigation so far does not indicate such a thing,” he said. Police had spoken to some students, coaching institutes and their teachers who had received copies of the leaked papers to ascertain the source of the leak, the official said. The leak has snowballed into a major issue, with students venting their frustration on Twitter and criticising the board for its failure to maintain the sanctity of the exam.