Rohtak principal ‘responsible’ for BEd paper leak, says panel

Vishal Joshi

Tribune News Service

Kurukshetra, July 4

An internal committee of Jind-based Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University (CRSU) has held the principal of a private college in Rohtak responsible for ‘leak’ of a question paper of BEd (second year).

Confirming this, Dean of Colleges SK Sinha said the panel headed by him had recommended police action to scrutinise telephonic conservation between the principal of CR College of Education and her administrative staff for further details.

However, the committee opines that it was highly unlikely that the question paper reached other examination centres.

CRSU sources said an in-depth police probe could reveal from which mobile phone number the question paper was leaked out of the examination centre.

On June 23, the BEd second-year paper of ‘Knowledge and Curriculum’ conducted by the CSRU was spotted on the Twitter and other social media platforms within minutes of its start.

Taking note of the incident, Vice-Chancellor RB Solanki had immediately asked Sinha to initiate an internal probe.

Sinha said that the college principal could not give a satisfactory reply on why she demanded a softcopy when her office had already received a hard copy of the question paper.

“The CRSU has adopted the secure remote paper distribution technique. When demanded a softcopy, a one-time password (OTP) is sent only to the principal concerned about the examination centre. In this case also, she got access to the question paper after keying in the OTP. But then, the paper was found on the social media,” he said.

Sinha said he had also suggested the CRSU to ensure not to supply a soft copy to the college which had already been provided a hard copy.

Was spotted on social media 

• On June 23, the BEd second-year paper of ‘Knowledge and Curriculum’ conducted by the Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University was spotted on Twitter and other social media platforms within minutes of its start.
• Taking note of the incident, Vice-Chancellor RB Solanki had immediately asked Dean of Colleges SK Sinha to initiate an internal probe.