India, March 3 -- While the Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) class 12 and Secondary School Certificate (SSC) class 10 board exams are currently underway in Maharashtra and the government is striving to conduct the exams in a copy-free environment, two first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged on Saturday in separate instances of mass copying in the state.

In one instance, no sooner did a squad led by secondary education officer Ashwini Latkar pay an unexpected visit to Kalpataru Junior College in Nimgaon, Vaijapur taluka, during the HSC class 12 Biology examination on Saturday, it found that the students had thrown copies outside the exam hall which included exam-related materials, guides, Spark guides and micro-Xerox copies. F...