Teachers, coaching tutor arrested over paper leak
NEXUS Delhi police say the teachers took photos of the Class 12 economics question paper and shared it with the coaching centre tutor almost an hour before the exam started
Delhi police arrested two teachers and a coaching centre tutor from the national capital on Sunday for allegedly leaking CBSE question papers before the exam.
The teachers, Rishabh and Rohit, took photos of the Class 12 economics question paper and shared it with Tauqeer, who works for a coaching centre in outer Delhi’s Bawana, almost an hour before the exam started, RP Upadhyay, special commissioner of police (crime), said.
“Tauqeer then circulated the leaked question papers through WhatsApp,” he said, adding that the arrested men are part of the module which leaked the question papers in printed form.
Questions papers circulated on WhastApp were also in handwritten and typed formats. Police are yet to crack the module that leaked the papers a day before the exams.
The leak of class 12 economics paper on March 26 and Class 10 mathematics paper on March 28 hours before the tests started had forced authorities to announce re-exams. The move had triggered protests by students who had demanded immediate action against the guilty and a courtmonitored CBI probe, saying they had lost trust in the national education body. Some students also moved courts in different parts of thecountry,seekingcancellation of re-exams.
NEW DELHI:
The Jharkhand police had arrested three people and detained nine juveniles till Saturday in connection with the question paper leak.
The crime branch of Delhi Police has questioned over 60 people in connection with the CBSE leak case, including the administrators of over 10 WhatsApp groups on which the leaked question papers were shared.
The SIT of Delhi Police had questioned a principal and two teachers of a school in Bawana on Saturday. The officials refused to comment on whether the two arrested teachers belong to the same school. Four other teachers from two schools in outer Delhi were also questioned on Saturday. Here is the sequence of events that led to the CBSE Class 12 economics paper leak, according to the Delhi Police:
The economics paper is opened by two private school teachers — Rohit and Rishabh — 30-40 minutes before the designated time, which is 9.45am
Images of the paper are sent by Rohit over WhatsApp to Tauqeer, a coaching centre tutor, on the instructions of Rishabh
Tauqeer, who is aged 26-27 years and teaches at the outer Delhi coaching centre, circulates the paper among his students. The police are following several lines of investigation on the leaks that also include the Class 10 maths paper
Upadhyay said the name of the school where the arrested teachers taught cannot be disclosed due to ongoing investigation.
“The three are being interrogated to identify other suspects who were part of this module. Also, the entire sequence of events that led to the paper leak will also be established with their grilling,” the officer said.