vice-prez of Edu board HELD over Odisha teachers' test paper leak
Bhubaneswar, Aug. 4 -- Odisha CID arrested vice-president of the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) on Sunday for his alleged involvement in the paper leak of Odisha Teachers Eligibility Test (OTET), officers aware of the matter said.
BSE was supposed to hold the OTET-2025 on July 20, but, it was cancelled after a handwritten copy of the question paper was circulated on social media.
Crime branch director general of police (DGP) Vinaytosh Mishra said, "BSE vice-president Nihar Ranjan Mohanty was involved in setting the OTET question papers and was coordinating with a Bhopal-based firm that printed the papers. Before the question papers went for printing, the firm had sent a password-protected copy of the paper to Mohanty for proofreading. He was supposed delete the file after proofreading. However, he allowed Jitan Moharana, a data entry operator from the office of the controller of examinations, to access his laptop. Moharana leaked the papers."...
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