Family members and friends climb walls to make answer chits available to those appearing for their Class 10 exams at a centre in Vaishali, Bihar. PHOTO COURTESY: DIPANKAR
The arrests came a day after chief minister Nitish Kumar ordered the respective districts administrations to crack down. "I have ordered the administration to ensure there was no cheating in the continuing matriculation examination," he said while addressing the media.
Many students smuggled in textbooks and notes into examination centres despite tight security -- and parents and friends were photographed scaling the walls of test centres to pass on answers to students during the current secondary school examinations.
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Some of the men folded the answer sheets into paper planes and flew the missiles directly to the cheating students.
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The examinations, held by the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), began on March 17 and are scheduled to go on until 24 March. Officials say more than 1.4 million students are taking the tests.
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Kumar's order to ensure cheating-free matriculation examination had its impact on Saturday, with the police arresting hundreds of persons from outside examination centres.
Additional director general of police Gupteshwar Pandey said over 300 persons, including parents and relatives, were arrested from different exam centres.
Additional police personnel were also deployed in Vaishali and Nawada for conduct of fair examination.
Vaishali has gained notoriety in the last couple of days for mass scale use of unfair means in matriculation examination.
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The exams were cancelled in two centres in Mahnar in Vaishali district and in two other centres in Saharsa and Nawada districts on Friday after visuals of mass-scale cheating went viral.
The article originally appeared in The Hindustan Times
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