Mumbai cops detain two students over HSC paper leak

MUMBAI: The city crime branch probing the HSC Maths paper leak have detained two students, including one from Ahmednagar who allegedly leaked the paper to the Mumbai student over Whatsapp. Preliminary investigations have suggested that the Mumbai and Buldhana district paper leaks could be linked.
In Mumbai, the math paper got leaked 30 minutes prior to the exam on WhatApp, and a private college has registered an FIR with the Shivaji Park police station after they found the math paper in the cellphone of one of the students who had appeared for the exams.
According to the FIR registered with Shivaji Park police, one of the teachers at Dr Antonio Da Silva High School and Junior College has claimed that the supervisor of the school had found a cellphone with one of the students after the exams were over. "I called the student in my cabin and also called the examiner to inform him about the incident as per protocol, and we opened his mobile phone in front of him and found that at 10:17am on March 3, he had received a math paper on his Whatsapp," the teacher said in his complaint. Shivaji Park police on Saturday registered a case of malpractice in the HSC Mathematics paper against three students and a person who is believed to be a teacher.
In the Buldhana case, police had on Saturday arrested five people, including two teachers of a private school, for allegedly leaking parts of the Maths paper of the ongoing class 12 board exams 30 minutes before the test on Friday.
"During preliminary inquiries, the student caught at the Shivaji Park school told us that the paper was allegedly sent to him by his cousin from Ahmadnagar, so we are questioning him about the source of the leak. We will present the three students before the juvenile court. We have spoken to the Buldhana police and are trying to find out if there is a common link." Another officer said they are not ruling out the possibility that the leak may be by a runner who ferries papers to distribution centres.