Thursday, September 23, 2010

Postman, teacher arrested in exam scam

Dharmshala : The police today arrested Kachri village postman Jagdish Chand and Kashmir singh, ateacher in Adarsh Public school in this case. According to sources Jagdish Chand has been accused for delivering the registered post from the Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education (HPBSE) to Kashmir Singh.

Kashmir singh an agent of Ashwin dogra (a key accused) delivered him the registered posts.The post included the roll numbers and detailed marksheets of students which were in possession of Dogra and were given only after full collection of fees. Many students of Arvind’s school were benifitted from this scam.

Both accused were produced in the court today and remanded in police custody. When asked, Kangra SP Atul Fulzele said the accused principal, Piarai Lal, who was the superintendent of an examination centre, absconded. It is suspected that Pairai Lal supplied the original answer sheet to Dogra which was later scanned for producing many fake answer sheets. Fulzele further said they had confiscated the answer sheets of those students who were beneficiaries of the scam, from the education board. The handwriting of students would be matched with that in the answer sheets.

Also, a case of forgery would be registered against those involved in the scam, he added. The board found that 180 students of classes VIII, X, XI and XII had got certificates from Dogra. Meanwhile, with the government throwing its weight behind the education board chairman, he has decided to expand the probe even up to supplementary papers conducted in the last one year.

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