Amid Reports of Paper Leak, CBSE decides to reconduct exams of Class XII, Economics & Class X, Maths Paper

March 28,2018:

On Wednesday, Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to re-conduct examinations for Economics (Class 12th) and Mathematics (for Class 10).

CBSE has taken cognizance of certain happenings in conduct of certain examinations as are being reported.

With the view to uphold sanctity of Board Examinations and in the interest of the fairness to the students, Board has decided to re-conduct the examinations. Dates for fresh examinations and the other details shall be hosted on the CBSE website within a week, a CBSE notice said.

Some teachers, parents and students are planning to move Delhi HC seeking re-exam and an independent probe on the leaks.

Parents and students claim that even the Class X Social Studies and Class XII Biology exam were also leaked among others.

While CBSE is yet to clarify if the re-exam will be for Delhi region or all India.

There are reports emerging that Class X Maths paper was being circulated on Tuesday night in other regions as well.

This is not the first instance where the Board exam papers conducted by CBSE were leaked. In 2006, the police uncovered the leaked CBSE question paper of Business Studies while it was searching for suspects related to the Varanasi bomb blasts. The police in Panipat in Haryana searched every hotel and dhaba for information related to the blasts and, instead, found the leaked papers.

In 2011, three persons, Krishnan Raju, principal of government senior secondary school at Lapati, Rashid, an executive engineer of the Andamans PWD, and Vijayan, a forest ranger, were arrested on charges of leaking the question papers of the on-going CBSE exams. Question papers included those of science and mathematics of Class XII.