Students arrested for disrupting SLC exam in Nawalparasi
Kantipur Report
NAWALPARASI, April 8 - The Police Sunday morning arrested seven students from an examination centre in Nawalparasi for disrupting the SLC examination.
The arrested students took today’s tests in the District Police Office premises.
The students had been arrested from Pawan Secondary School where they were chanting slogans demanding that they be allowed to copy in the examination. According to the District Education Office, all of the seven had been taking their exams as private students.
The arrested have alleged that the principal of the school and centre head Devendra Kumar Singh had taken Rs 10,000-15,000 from each of them, giving assurances that he would make sure they pass their exams.
Earlier, on Friday the Social Studies paper had been cancelled after they began chanting slogans demanding that they should be allowed to copy from books and keys since they had already paid to do so.
According to our Nawalparasi correspondent, the students were arrested this morning before the paper started as they began protesting with the demand that their money be returned if they were not allowed to cheat.
Meanwhile, in Sri Janata Higher Secondary School Balbazaar, Siraha five students have been assigned with an individual invigilator.
According to centre head Ram Dev Shah, although there is a provision which states that there should be one invigilator for 25 students, due to security reasons the number of invigilators had been increased. 165 invigilators have been assigned for 800 students there.
Meanwhile, Janassari Rai of Basa-4, Solukhumbu—who had gone missing since the past four days—was found dead in a nearby jungle.
Rai’s family has suspected that Rai, who was also pregnant, committed suicide ahead of this year's SLC after failing to cross two consecutive SLC exams, dubbed the "Iron Gate" in the past two years.
In Pokharia Secondary School, Biratnagar the Police have arrested Rajendra Karki for trying to disrupt the examination by becoming the centre head with fake identification papers. Along with Karki another man— who prepared the fake papers for him — has also been arrested.
Meanwhile, the Examination Controllers Office (ECO) Sunday issued a statement saying that the office was aware of incidents where some “unruly elements†had been trying to confuse students and parents by spreading rumours that various exam papers had been leaked.
Stating that such incidents adversely affected social structure, the statement has requested all to report about any person or group trying to spread such rumours to the nearest police station.
The ECO has further requested everyone to confidently sit for the examinations
Likewise, the District Education Officer (DEO) Mahottari Divas Mishra informed that today’s Compulsory Mathematics paper had not been leaked as it was previously claimed.
Earlier, Police in civilian clothes raided in various places in Jaleshwor and obtained photocopies of section A of the paper and original copies of section B.
However, after a thorough investigation it was found that those papers were fake.
The decision was taken in a meeting between the DEO and heads of the four examination centers.
The police had also arrested Mahendra Singh, Bhogendra Thakur, Ajay Shah and Jayesh Charan Yadav in Jaleshwor for selling fake papers.
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