Crime Branch of Odisha Police arrests heads of three privately run colleges

Updated on: Wednesday, March 27, 2013

In a major breakthrough in the Plus-II science question paper leak, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police have arrested heads of three privately run colleges.

Additional Director General of Police in-charge of Crime Branch B K Sharma said, "These three private college chief had bought Physics question paper from Devendra Behera, the deputy secretary of the Council of Higher Secondary Education posted at Sambalpur."

Sharma said the three Saroj Mohanty, Principal of Lambodar Science College of Kalahandi, Akshya Rath, chairman of Om Maa Saraswati Institute of Science and Technology of Rajgangpur and Rajendra Malla, Chaityana College of Sundergarh, were arrested last night.

With this, the total number of arrest in the question paper leak was six, Sharma said.

Earlier, the physics examination on March 7 had been cancelled after the report of the question paper leak.

The government had ordered the Crime Branch to probe the matter.

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