New Delhi: Delhi Police has formed special teams to start an investigation last evening into the recent leak of two question papers which were cancelled by the Central Board of Secondary Education. The started the probe from 25 people of whom mostly comprise of students who were as per the reports accessed the handwritten question papers. The police are working to trace the work backwards to the source of the leaked papers which were shared over WhatsApp, the encrypted messenger service.
The special investigation team of police with its head as RP Upadhyay, who is a senior police officer heading the crime branch, was constituted after the registration of two cases on complaints from the CBSE organization.
“We have received snapshots of the handwritten paper circulated through WhatsApp from the complainant. We are trying to ascertain the source of these messages. Since WhatsApp messages are end-to-end encrypted, we are facing a bit of difficulty in tracing the source,” said an assigned officer privy to the probe, according to news agency Press Trust of India.
The investigating officer said that they have not interrogated any official who were assigned at any of the examination centres or from the Education Body CBSE. The interrogation will take place once the source of messages is traced.
The Education Body CBSE, which has been ignoring complaints related to the reports that some question papers were leaked for days, had to cancel on Monday two question papers which includes the economics exam of Class 12.
The decision to cancel those papers was taken hours after the Class 10 mathematics paper leak happened and was being circulated on social media.
Prakash Javadekar, Union Education Minister, later told reporters that “2-3 papers” had leaked but promised all parents and students that the authorities had already filed a police complaint right away. The minister noted that the leaks appeared to be a localized issue limited just to Delhi.
The minister also spoke the fact that the papers were leaked after just half-an-hour before the examination timing.
However, police sources, suggest that this is not actually the case with it.
A police officer opined that the leak of the examination papers appear to have happened in the evening before the two examinations.
A police official statement carried that the Education Body, CBSE had registered the first case pertaining to the leak of economics paper yesterday, while the case related to the mathematics paper was filed today because of the complaint lodged by the regional director of CBSE.
The cases so far registered were based on charges of criminal breach of trust, cheating and criminal conspiracy.
Reports about the leak of economics paper had circulated on social media, which includes WhatsApp, some hours before the paper commenced on Monday.
The Education Body CBSE, however, denied any kind of paper leak and urged students and parents not to get panicked.
“We have checked with all exam centres and the paper was not leaked. The source of circulation of this information is not known yet. We want to urge the students and parents to not panic and assure them that the board is doing its best to ensure sanctity of the examination,” a senior CBSE official had informed.
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