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Students detained to prevent leak of question paper

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JAIPUR: After distributing the wrong question paper, invigilators and supervisory staff at a girls’ school in Sikar town of Rajasthan detained 49 girl students appearing for a class XII examination for over 24 hours, to avoid leakage of the paper meant for an exam on Wednesday.

The Education Department ordered an inquiry, besides cancelling the examination. It issued instructions to the examination centre on Tuesday to allow the girls to go home.

Students of the Government Maru Girls’ Senior Secondary School were given the question papers for Sanskrit-II, instead of Sanskrit-I, at the Grameen Mahila Shikshan Sansthan examination centre, Shivsinghpura.

Mistake

When the invigilators realised the mistake, they took back the wrong question papers. The Rajasthan Secondary Education Board authorities and the school management decided to detain the students at the examination centre till April 1.

Though the school management claimed that it had taken the girls’ families into confidence, the parents said they had no other option as the careers of their daughters were at stake.

State Principal Education Secretary R.P. Jain said here that a show cause notice was being issued to the Grameen Mahila Shikshan Sansthan for cancellation of its government affiliation and an inquiry by a committee headed by the Sikar Additional Collector had been ordered.

Mr. Jain said the State government had taken the matter “very seriously” and issued instructions for prompt completion of the probe, besides shifting of the in-charge of examination centre.

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