Sitting in his thatched-roof house, G. Ravi waged a lonely battle and ultimately exposed the scam of EAMCET paper-II leakage. A civil engineer working with private projects in West Asian countries, 47-year-old Ravi used to come home and stay back for two months with the family every year. “Since my daughter has been preparing for medical entrance, I am staying here for the past six months coordinating her studies. I smelt something fishy when a couple of students got far superior ranks compared to their weekly and annual tests,” he said speaking to The Hindu.
He collected data which strengthened his suspicions. Some students, who studied along with his daughter, got ranks over 30,000, in first Telangana EAMCET but secured ranks ranging from 200 to 700 in Eamcet-2. This astonished him. “I made further inquiries and found that these students who got such surprising ranks were absent for classes consecutively for five to six days just before the exam,” he explained. He approached local mediapersons who raised questions over the ranks and possible fraud. This prompted some student associations to launch agitation demanding probe into leakage of question paper and eventually drove the Government to order for probe by CID initially. Ultimately, Mr. Ravi’s suspicion unearthed a big scam affecting the future of thousands of students.
