Google on Saturday replied to the Delhi Police, giving them details of the email addresses from where Central Board of Secondary Education Chairperson Anita Karwal was sent a mail about the leak of question papers prior to the Class 10 mathematics exam, PTI reported on Saturday. The Delhi Police said the person who sent the mail has been identified and an inquiry is underway. So far, the police have questioned a total of 53 students and seven teachers.
Karwal had reportedly received a complaint on her official email address at 1.39 am on Wednesday – the day the exam was conducted – from a student who urged her to cancel the exam. However, she saw the email at 8.55 am, just before the exam, which could not be stopped without having the information verified first, School Education Secretary Anil Swarup said on Friday.
Class 10 student moves Supreme Court against re-exam
A Class 10 student, Rohan Mathew, on Saturday moved the Supreme Court through his father Santosh, with a plea to quash the CBSE’s decision to hold a re-exam for the mathematics paper, The Hindu reported. Mathew, a student from Kerala, argued that the board’s decision to hold another exam “merely on the basis of an unconfirmed apprehension” of a leak in Delhi has put the future of over 16 lakh students in danger.
The petition said that CBSE papers are made and protected with the utmost secrecy, and hence there cannot be justification for a re-exam merely on the likelihood of a leak. The student also asked the court to constitute a Special High Powered Committee to conduct a detailed inquiry into why the CBSE had ordered a retest. The petition will be mentioned before Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra on Monday for an urgent hearing.
‘Leaked Hindi and political science papers are old or fake’
Meanwhile, the CBSE on Saturday said that the Class 12 Hindi and political science question papers being circulated online are either fake or old. “It is requested not to circulate the news about these fake papers so that the students and other stakeholders are not misled,” the board said in a statement about the Hindi paper. The Hindi exam is scheduled for Monday and the Political Science test for April 6.
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