PATNA: Patna police on Tuesday detained SS Girl's Senior Secondary School foremost Pramod Kumar Shrivastava from Bihar School Examination Board's (BSEB) HQ office in Patna after thousands of answer copies of matriculation examination carried out via the Board have long gone missing from one of the evaluation centre in Gopalganj.
SSP Manu Maharaj told this newspaper that the police detained the foremost to query him and the police crew from Gopalganj will quiz him. "Further, action will be taken after the interrogation," he mentioned.
The incident took place at SS Girl's Senior Secondary School, Gopalganj. It got here into mild when two BSEB authentic - Sujeet Kumar and Pradeep Kumar reached faculty premises on Saturday to gather some answer copies of top rank holders for verification however they failed to seek out the papers on the centre. The three-day verification of toppers started from Sunday.
School foremost Pramod Kumar Shrivastava mentioned after you have to understand the missing answer sheets from the BSEB officers, he right away rushed to school from his place of origin Padrauna, UP.
"The officials wanted 12 answer copies of two students including science, social science, Hindi, English, Sanskrit and mathematics. However, we managed to find only few answer copies, while the remaining were missing. I told the BSEB officials that I will send the answer copies as soon as I get. But they said they wanted it by Sunday. After thorough search, we found that several bags of answer copies were missing from the strong room where all the evaluated copies were kept on April 5 after the evaluation of answer copies. Apart from me, only the caretaker Chattu Singh has the key of the strong room," mentioned Shrivastava in a grievance lodged via him at Town PS in Gopalganj.
Town SHO Ravi Kumar mentioned the FIR used to be lodged on Sunday (June 17) via faculty foremost. "In a complaint, school principal Shrivastava said around 214 bags of evaluated answer copies, which consist around 40,000 copies, went missing. The investigation is underway and the police are questioning the school staffs. There was no sign of forced entry at the strong room in preliminary investigation. According to sources, only principal and caretaker have the keys of the room," Kumar told this newspaper on Tuesday.
Sources claimed that the police suspected the involvement of the school staffs in missing answer copies. There are general 21 staffs in class, who have been wondered via the police. However, even after 48-hours from the incident, the police have not succeeded to nab the culprits.
Meanwhile, there used to be a large number of hue and cry at BSEB headquarters because the board had previous declared that the results might be introduced on June 20. Despite a number of attempts the reporter may just not contact the BSEB chairman Anand Kishor and secretary Anup Kumar Sinha. None of them gained to the call or answered to text.
One of the BSEB authentic mentioned that he had no information about the incident and requested to contact the school authority at Gopalganj.
Meanwhile, Opposition RJD used to be quick to target state govt on the factor. Taking a swipe at CM Nitish Kumar, leader of opposition and previous deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav mentioned in a tweet on Tuesday: "Tomorrow the results of matric examination might be out however best today the fair pro-Nitish officers of the notorious for training scandal, corruption and misdeeds tainted Bihar board got here to understand that 42 thousand answer sheets of the Board's class X have been missing and on June 20 they have to claim results.
SSP Manu Maharaj told this newspaper that the police detained the foremost to query him and the police crew from Gopalganj will quiz him. "Further, action will be taken after the interrogation," he mentioned.
The incident took place at SS Girl's Senior Secondary School, Gopalganj. It got here into mild when two BSEB authentic - Sujeet Kumar and Pradeep Kumar reached faculty premises on Saturday to gather some answer copies of top rank holders for verification however they failed to seek out the papers on the centre. The three-day verification of toppers started from Sunday.
School foremost Pramod Kumar Shrivastava mentioned after you have to understand the missing answer sheets from the BSEB officers, he right away rushed to school from his place of origin Padrauna, UP.
"The officials wanted 12 answer copies of two students including science, social science, Hindi, English, Sanskrit and mathematics. However, we managed to find only few answer copies, while the remaining were missing. I told the BSEB officials that I will send the answer copies as soon as I get. But they said they wanted it by Sunday. After thorough search, we found that several bags of answer copies were missing from the strong room where all the evaluated copies were kept on April 5 after the evaluation of answer copies. Apart from me, only the caretaker Chattu Singh has the key of the strong room," mentioned Shrivastava in a grievance lodged via him at Town PS in Gopalganj.
Town SHO Ravi Kumar mentioned the FIR used to be lodged on Sunday (June 17) via faculty foremost. "In a complaint, school principal Shrivastava said around 214 bags of evaluated answer copies, which consist around 40,000 copies, went missing. The investigation is underway and the police are questioning the school staffs. There was no sign of forced entry at the strong room in preliminary investigation. According to sources, only principal and caretaker have the keys of the room," Kumar told this newspaper on Tuesday.
Sources claimed that the police suspected the involvement of the school staffs in missing answer copies. There are general 21 staffs in class, who have been wondered via the police. However, even after 48-hours from the incident, the police have not succeeded to nab the culprits.
Meanwhile, there used to be a large number of hue and cry at BSEB headquarters because the board had previous declared that the results might be introduced on June 20. Despite a number of attempts the reporter may just not contact the BSEB chairman Anand Kishor and secretary Anup Kumar Sinha. None of them gained to the call or answered to text.
One of the BSEB authentic mentioned that he had no information about the incident and requested to contact the school authority at Gopalganj.
Meanwhile, Opposition RJD used to be quick to target state govt on the factor. Taking a swipe at CM Nitish Kumar, leader of opposition and previous deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav mentioned in a tweet on Tuesday: "Tomorrow the results of matric examination might be out however best today the fair pro-Nitish officers of the notorious for training scandal, corruption and misdeeds tainted Bihar board got here to understand that 42 thousand answer sheets of the Board's class X have been missing and on June 20 they have to claim results.
Bihar school principal detained over missing Class X answer sheets
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