Amritsar:
Students stage a protest against the move of the Central Board of Secondary
Education (CBSE) to conduct re-examination of Economics and Mathematics, in
Amritsar on Saturday.Photo : google news
Delhi Police on Sunday arrested one coaching centre owner
and two other teachers in Delhi's Bawana for their involvement in the Central
Board of Examination (CBSE) Class X and Class XII paper-leak episode, according
to media reports.
The accused were identified as Rishabh and Rohit, teachers
at a private school, and Touqeer, a tutor at a coaching centre in Bawana,
reported Press Trust of India.
The coaching centre owner, Touqeer, had allegedly leaked the
economics paper half an hour before the exam and sent it to the teachers on
WhatsApp, the police told PTI.
The re-test for Central Board of Secondary Education’s
(CBSE's) Class 12 economics paper will be held on April 25, while the Class 10
mathematics re-test, if required, will be conducted only for Delhi-NCR and
Haryana in July, the government has said. All the confusion regarding the CBSE
re-test should be cleared now after the announcements made by his ministry,
said Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar.
Students will have to take the Class 10 CBSE maths re-test only if the leak is
found to be a large-scale one, added Javadekar.
According to ANI, the Delhi Police on Saturday sent three
teams to schools, exam centres and their houses in outer Delhi to investigate
the Class X and XII paper leaks.
More than 60 people have been questioned till now, out of
which 10 are tutors of coaching centres. Moreover, about 50 mobile phones of
students and tutors have been seized, reported ANI.
According to Police, e-mail address details have been
received from Google and that the person who sent the mail has been identified
and inquiry is on. A total of 53 students and 7 teachers have been questioned
so far, ANI reported. Earlier, in a significant breakthrough, Delhi Police's
crime branch has received a reply from Google on the details it had sought
pertaining to the e-mail address from where the CBSE chairperson was sent a
mail about the Class 10 mathematics paper being leaked, sources told PTI. The
official, however, refused to share any other detail regarding Google's
response.
The CBSE has shared information regarding how board papers
are conducted with the police, which is probing the CBSE paper leaks. In a
letter to the police, the CBSE gave details about the examination centres,
names of staff and superintendents at the centres, bank custodians, as well as
the names and contact details of bank managers who had custody of the leaked papers
in Delhi and Haryana.
After the CBSE re-examination announcement came, a CBSE
student from Cochin on Friday approached the Supreme Court against the
re-examination of the Class 10 maths paper. Meanwhile, the 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, as the investigators sought to trace the origin of the leak.
Anil Swarup, Secretary School Education in Union Human
Resources Development Ministry, said the decision to conduct fresh exams won't
affect the date of publication of the results, which usually happens in May
end. However, there will be no fresh test outside of India as the question
papers are different for students appearing for CBSE examinations outside
India.
Important CBSE announcements:
- No leak of CBSE papers outside India, hence no re-exam will be held abroad
- CBSE Class X Mathematics examination likely to be held in July
- Class XII Economics re-exam on April 25: Education Secretary
Ever since the papers were leaked, scores of students have
been protesting to express their dissatisfaction over the poor governance and
the CBSE re-examination decision.
On Wednesday, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed
after the CBSE registered two cases with the Crime Branch.
The question paper of the Class 12 Economics exam, which was
held on March 26, and Class 10 Maths, held on March 28, were leaked on social
media hours before the examination.
A first information report (FIR) earlier revealed that CBSE
had received an e-mail from devn532@gmail.com on March 28 at 1.29 am with 12
images of the CBSE Class 10 mathematics paper, but the CBSE completely ignored
the tip-off sent by a person yet to be identified, according to media reports.
The leaked CBSE paper, which was even circulated on social media application
WhatsApp, was initially sold off for Rs 35,000, but the prices later dropped to
Rs 5,000, according to media reports. It is alleged that 1,000 students in Delhi
may have accessed the paper.
The Delhi Police wrote to Google asking it to share details
of the ID from which the CBSE chairperson was sent the e-mail about the paper
being leaked, police officials said.
You can check the board’s official announcements regarding
the re-examination at www.cbse.nic.in. CBSE helpline numbers listed on their
site are: 91-11-22509256, 22509257, 22509258, 22509259.
Here are the top 10 developments in the CBSE re-examination
fiasco and the case around the CBSE paper leak:
