The Jharkhand Academic Council (JAC) on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to the centre superintendents, invigilators found guilty in the intermediate paper leak matter. After conducting rounds of investigation in Koderma, Giridih and Hazaribagh districts, the examination conducting body has decided to conduct the re-examination on March 26.
“On the basis of the reports prepared by the DCs of the respective districts, the decision for conducting re-examination has been taken. The re-examination of physics will be conducted at different centers in the first sitting – 9:45 AM to 1 PM. All previous centre superintendents and invigilators have been removed. As per the rule, on 25 students, there must be one invigilator at each designated examination centre,” said JAC Chairperson, Arvind Prasad while addressing the media.
Notably, nine people were arrested including a peon and a coaching institute Director involved in connection with the question paper leak case during the ongoing Intermediate examination, a week ago.
As per reports, the Physics intermediate paper was leaked from one school of Bagodar in Giridih district on March 2. The district police and the district administration in a joint effort had unveiled the matter. The police team arrested a peon working at government school and a coaching institute director, Abhishek Kaushal including their team during the investigation.
The investigating team had sent the compiled reports to JAC, making a series of recommendations. “As per the advices, the JAC academic council has taken the decision and has made all necessary arrangements at the exam centers. The security has been beefed up at the sensitive examination centers.”
The State board examination started from mid-February continued till March 9. In accordance to the data released by the Academic Council, over 7, 54,724 students from across the State appeared in the board examination, this year. The data released by the council further suggested over 1, 86, 479 students are in humanities stream while 35,046 students appeared in commerce stream. Around 94,310 students have registered themselves in science stream.