Class 12 Mathematics paper was held on March 3 (Representational image)
The teacher who went to take the paper at the center sent pictures before the commencement of the examination.
Mumbai Police has arrested five people in connection with the Maharashtra Board Class 12 Mathematics paper leak case. According to The Indian Express, the arrested accused include a school principal and two teachers. The Mathematics paper for the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam was leaked last week. The paper was shared on social media half an hour before the commencement of the exam.
The Class 12 Mathematics paper was conducted on March 3. Mumbai Police’s crime branch started probing the matter after a local student found a maths question paper ahead of the exam, following which a case was registered in Mumbai’s Dadar.
According to the police, a female teacher’s hand has been found behind the paper leak in a school in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. She was one of the people responsible for taking the question papers from the examination center and taking them to the school.
Before reaching the school with the question paper, the teacher along with the driver opened the packet and clicked the pictures of the questions. The woman then sent the pictures to some school officials and her younger sister, who sold the leaked papers to others for Rs 10,000 a piece, police said.
After the leak came to light, the police started investigation and have now arrested five people from Matoshree Bhagubai Bombay College in Ahmednagar. The accused have been identified as teachers Sachin Mahnoor, Kiran Dighe, Archana Bambre and principal Bhausaheb Amrite. The driver named Vaibhav Swad has also been caught. The police are currently scanning the WhatsApp chats and call detail records (CDRs) of the five accused, The Times of India reported.
The police made the arrest after questioning two students. The mobile phone used to leak the Mathematics question paper has been recovered from a student. The student told the police that he had received the paper from his cousin in Ahmednagar. Police Inspector Shyam Nair said the police then traced the college from where the question paper was leaked and arrested those involved in the malpractice. The accused are being brought to Mumbai and will be produced in court today, March 9.
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