The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) paper leak case in which class XII Economics and class X Mathematics exams paper were leaked have added one more accused in the case. Delhi Police, on Wednesday, have arrested Praveen Kumar Jha, the principal of the Mother Khazani Convent School. Reportedly, Police have received a information that the principal was aware of the whole incident that occurred.
Notably, Delhi Police have arrested three accused in the case of leaking Class XII Economics paper in April from Himachal Pradesh’s Una district. The accused were identified as Rakesh Kumar a commerce lecturer, Amit Sharma a clerk and Ashok a class IV employee. They were installed at Jawahar Navodaya School, Pekhuwala on 26th March for their examination duty.
Delhi Police in a statement elaborated that “Rakesh and Amit were arrested by the Delhi Police's crime branch from Una, Himachal Pradesh. Initially, Rakesh during investigation disclosed that he at the time of collecting computer science paper on March 23 also sneaked economics paper and photographed it with the help of his school clerk and peon Amit and Ashok,”. The statements further stated: “The image was shared through WhatsApp to Rakesh who further called a student who took tuitions from him and wrote down the questions in her handwriting which were later shared through WhatsApp by Rakesh to his relatives. The image of question paper went viral after Rakesh shared it with his relatives,”
The question papers of class XII Economics and class X Mathematics were leaked on WhatsApp for which the exams were held on March 26 and March 28 respectively. After the leak Class XII Economics paper was re-conducted on April 25 and for Class X no re-exam is conducted yet.
The case has witnessed questioning of more than 60 people among which 10 were tutors of coaching centres.
