Cheating in SEE exam by forming WhatsApp group, invigilator expelled

Inaruwa (Sunsari), March 24: It has been found that mobile phones have been used to cheat in the ongoing Secondary Education Examination (SEE) here. 

An invigilator has been caught red-handed for helping the students cheat through WhatsApp in the mathematics subject exam at Saraswati Secondary School Examination Centre at Inaruwa-9 in Sunsari district.

Chief District Officer of Sunsari, Dharmendra Kumar Mishra, said that two invigilators involved in the cheating using 'WhatsApp' have been arrested from the examination centre.

Seeing the team including the CDO who reached the examination centre in the course of carrying out monitoring, the invigilators (teachers) switched off their mobile phones.     

When their mobile phones were examined, it was found that they had been chatting through WhatsApp to help the students cheat in the exam from the mobile phone belonging to a primary teacher assigned as an invigilator at the examination centre. 

CDO Mishra said the chat in the WhatsApp Group was about the name of the students, the symbol number the name of the boarding school and the number of students taking the exam from that particular school. He said the arrested teachers – Shrawan Kumar Chaudhary and Ramananda Mehta – have been expelled as invigilators.     

Similarly, three invigilators were detained from the Bhagwati Secondary School Examination Centre at Inaruwa-1 during the monitoring, said CDO Mishra.     

According to Sunsari Superintendent of Police Suman Timsina, those arrested are Mukendra Yadav, Ramananda Yadav and Dinesh Prasad Yadav of Inaruwa-5. They have been held on the charge of carrying out activities inconsistent with the examination code of conduct.     

Further investigation is underway in this connection, SP Timsina said.     

Meanwhile, the Sunsari administration has directed the bodies concerned to make the checking at the exam centres stringent after the issue of mobiles being allowed at the examination centre came to light. The previous day, the CDO expelled two invigilators from Duhabi of Sunsari for taking Rs 10,000 each from the students. (RSS)