Crime Branch To Probe OTET Question Papers Leak

Cuttack: The Crime Branch on Saturday said that it would probe the Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) question papers leak.

The announcement came a day after president of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) Dr Jahan Ara Begum lodged an FIR at Mangalabag police station.

Accepting the FIR, the Mangalabag police registered a case under Section 408 of the IPC and the Odisha Conduct of Examination Act, 1988.

Talking to mediapersons on Friday, Crime Branch ADG Santosh Upadhyay had said that the BSE in a letter on January 16 had requested the Crime Branch to probe the incident. “We had advised them to lodge an FIR in a local police station after which the Crime Branch will provide all technical support and try to solve the case at the earliest,” he had pointed out.

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The BSE had cancelled the examination on January 16 as the students after appearing for the test in the first sitting complained that the question paper uploaded on the social media was similar to the original one.

About 1.12 lakh students had taken the test at 250 centres in the state.