KANPUR, March 4 -- A clerk at Siddharth Inter College in Bhatora, Bidhoona, Auraiya, was caught assisting a student in cheating during the UP Board intermediate biology exam on Monday, according to officials.

The incident took place just before the exam ended when the clerk, identified as Kuldeep, was seen showing answers written on the attendance register to a student. Sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) Garima Sonkiya, who was present at the centre, noticed the act and immediately intervened. She seized the student's answer sheet and the register, following which two examination rooms were sealed.

Students in one of the rooms protested the action, and during the commotion, a student verbally confronted the SDM and knocked her mobile phone...