The headmaster of a primary school was arrested on Monday for stealing the answer sheets of secondary school certificate (SSC) examinations and provided to students for money.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Muhammad Nazir of the Rawat police took Zahir Shah into custody after Justice Chaudhry Muhammad Tariq of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench dismissed his pre-arrest bail plea.
The accused in his bail application had contended that the case registered against him could only be tried by anti-corruption establishment (ACE) and not by the district police.
Deputy Prosecutor General Muhammad Usman told The Express Tribune that the Rawat police had added section-409 of Pakistan Penal Code for breach of trust by the public servants and the offence could be investigated by the district police.
On March 27, police seized over 500 solved answer sheets, for science and English subjects of the SSC annual examination for 2011. The police arrested Waqar Satti, a private schoolteacher, who later told the police that the answer sheets were given to him by Zahir Shah, headmaster Primary School Kamalabad. The sheets had been taken from the Chowk Pindori branch of the United Bank Limited.
Waqar had further accused Shah of giving Rs1,000 to solve one answer sheet. He said he was to return the sheets after solving them.
Furthermore, the manager, an assistant manager, a peon and a guard of the bank, the driver of the car and a clerk of the secrecy branch of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) obtained bails from a banking tribunal court in Lahore.
The arrest of Shah on Monday will help in completing the investigations of the case that saw the removal of the chairman and the controller of examination of BISE. Both the senior officials were sacked and a departmental inquiry had already been initiated against five others of the examination body for not safely keeping the solve answer sheets.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 21st, 2011.
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