Matric exams deferred due to question paper theft

Updated on: Friday, March 23, 2012

Official sources said today that the ongoing matriculation examination has been deferred by the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) in Odisha after alleged theft of question papers from a school in Puri district. The Examination Committee which met last evening took the decision after it was found that question papers of English, Third language, Mathematics, and two papers each of Science and Social Science were found missing from Bhagabati Vidyapeeth of Bajapur in Kakatpur of Puri district.

According to the sources, the examination centre superintndent and three others have been placed under suspension following the incident. Sources further said the locker of the almirah kept in the school office was broken and seals of the question packets were broken. Questions papers from the seven subjects were missing from the packets while the door of the school office was dismantled.

Board president Satyakam Mishra said, "Although, we have not yet received any complaint of question leak, yet we cannot take risk of conducting the examinations as per schedule since some questions are missing from the packets." While the MIL paper of the examination was over on March 19, the students appeared the English paper yesterday and the next paper was on Friday.

Mr. Mishra said, "In view of the fact that some English questions were also missing from the Kakatpur school, we have also cancelled the paper that was over yesterday." "We will take a decision of rescheduling dates of the examinations in a day or two."
 

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