New Delhi, March 14
Reassuring that the question paper that was being surreptitiously sold to students hours before the exam has not ‘even 0.1 per cent in common with the real CBSE question paper’, the CBSE Chairman, Mr Ashok Ganguly, today blamed the Economics Offence Wing of the Delhi Police and the media for causing ‘unnecessary panic among students’.
Talking to The Tribune, he said, “Instead of first rushing to the media, the wing should have contacted us. We would have verified within minutes that the question paper being circulated is not the
one prepared by the CBSE.”CBSE officials said the ceased question paper was compared with all nine sets of questions papers that the CBSE had prepared and not even a single question from any of these paper matched those in the fake paper.
He went on to say, “I was first contacted by a news channel around 7.30 this morning. Despite my telling them that it is just not possible for anyone to leak the paper, they began broadcasting the news that the paper has been leaked. The EOW contacted us around 7.40 and arrived at our office at 9 am to compare the question papers.”
The Controller Examinations, Mr Pavnesh Kumar, said, “There is nothing common between our paper and the handwritten paper that was seized. In fact, even the pattern of the paper was different and a whole part of the question paper was missing.”
The chairperson of the CBSE also blamed the parents and students for ‘falling into the trap of paper sellers’.
He also rebutted the rumours that the physics paper had also been leaked. “There were complaints that the paper was lengthy and some found it tough. Therefore, it is a section of people with vested interests who are spreading the rumour. As far as the evaluation of the physics paper is concerned, the CBSE will do what is needed. We have issued instructions to supervisors and head examiners to go for relative marking after assessing the paper.”
Meanwhile, the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi Police claimed it had only written to the CBSE Secretary to find out whether the seized question papers were the actual ones and there was no intention to cause panic among the students.
