Two Headmasters Teacher held Examination fraud SSLC Examination Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board KSEEB Goripalya School

Two Headmasters, Teacher held for Examination fraud

Two Headmasters, Teacher held for Examination fraud

They were “replacing original answer scripts with new ones”

Bangalore: The J.J. Nagar police here have arrested two high school headmasters, both brothers, and a teacher on charges of taking money from students and abetting fraud during the SSLC Examination that concluded on Wednesday.

Deputy Commissioner of police (west) K.V. Sharathchandra told The Hindu on Thursday that the three were caught on Wednesday evening while they were allegedly replacing the original answer scripts with fraudulent ones at the government high school in Goripalya.

The arrested were identified as Thimmaiah (57), headmaster of the govt. High school goripalya, his brother Venkatesh (42) headmaster of the Govt high school chickpet and Enjeerappa, a Hindi teacher at the Goripalya school. They had taken Rs.20000 each from nearly 20 candidates, all repeaters, who had appeared for the examination at the fort high school in Chamarajpet.

The Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board (KSEEB) had appointed Thimmaiah and Venkatesh as route officers during the examination and provided a to each. Their duty was to collect the answer scripts from the examination centers assigned to them and deposits the scripts at the KSEEB office in Malleswaram.

The fort high school in chamarajpet was one of the Examinations assigned to venkatesh. He allegedly brought the answer scripts to the govt high school in Goripalya, which was not an examination centre.

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