Shiv Sharma Bhiwani, April 26
The Haryana School Education Board has decided to punish 1,361 students caught red-handed while copying in the matric annual examination of 2004 and exonerated 31students during their personal hearing in Bhiwani by the six Unfairmeans Committees constituted for the purpose.
A spokesman of the Board said that as many as 709 students indulging in copying in the districts of Gurgaon, Rohtak, Sirsa, Kaithal,
Sonepat, Faridabad, Hisar and Yamunanagar were called on April 24 and out of them only 16 were exonerated.
He said that 609 such students were disqualified for one year, 67 for two years and one for three years. The papers of four students for that day were declared cancelled and 12 cases were kept pending due to the unavailability of the case reports.
He said that 700 students, caught in matric examination in the districts of Ambala,
Sonepat, Panipat, Faridabad, Bhiwani and Gurgaon, were called for personal hearing on April 25.
Out of these 15 students were not given any punishment, while 611 were disqualified for one year, 64 for two years and two for three years.
He said that the examination of two students of that day has been cancelled and five cases kept pending due to the unavailability of case reports.
The spokesman further disclosed that they would declare the result of Matric Annual Examination-2004 in the first week of May and that of Senior Secondary in the second week of May.
A spokesman of the board said that strict instructions were being issued to all the District Education Officers that they should ensure that all the heads of schools get their result gazettes from their officers at 11 am and display the results at 3 pm in their schools on the day of the declaration of results.
All the school heads had been asked to issue provisional certificate free of cost to the regular students on demand on that very day.
The results of the private candidates would be available at 3 pm in the offices of District Education Officer.
