Police nab over 1,000 in cheating scandal
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Police have detained more than 1,000 people in eastern India over a cheating scandal that saw relatives scale the walls of a school exam center to help students, a senior officer said yesterday.
Images last week showed dozens of people clinging to the windows of a four-story building to pass cheat sheets in the state of Bihar, where more than 1.4 million teenagers are sitting their school-leaving exams.
Other images broadcast on local television showed school staff and armed police officers standing by as people smuggled in study aids to candidates inside examination centres.
Gupteshwar Pandey, Bihar鈥檚 director-general of police, said over 1,000 people have been rounded up and put in jail, but have not been formally charged with a criminal offence.
Instead, they are being made to pay fines ranging from 2,000 rupees (US$32) up to tens of thousands of rupees based on their part in the cheating to secure their release from jail.
Pandey said parents and teachers were among the main culprits 鈥渨ho were found cheating or cooperating with the cheating in school exams across the state.鈥
鈥淢ore than 1,000 people were detained, half of them were parents and teachers while the other half consisted of friends and relatives,鈥 Pandey said.
The images went viral on Twitter and made national headlines late last week, stirring Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government into action.
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