CBSE Paper Leak Live Updates; Mother Khajani Public School Under Scanner

In the last few days, the controversies surrounding the CBSE paper leak have disturbed students, parents and teachers to a great extent. To further add to it, the CBSE on Friday evening (30th March) announced that the class 12 Economics exam will be re-conducted on 25th April 2018 for candidates belonging to India. The CBSE NRI candidates will not be required to appear for the exam.

Further, the CBSE has clarified that since the investigations for the Class 10 Maths exam are still underway, no official date for the re-exam can be announced at the moment. During a press conference it was highlighted that even if the class 10 Maths exam is reconducted, it shall only be applicable for Delhi and Haryana state candidates, and not the entire country or NRI students affiliated to CBSE schools abroad. The board is expected to five more clarity on the same in the next 15 days. If the exam will be conducted again, it may take place in the month of July 2018.

While the student community along with their parents and teachers are lamenting over CBSE's decision by protesting in the open, signing online petitions etc, the board is emphasising on the fact that the decision to re-conduct the exam is in the favour of students so that sanctity of the exam and education system is maintained at large.

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CBSE Paper Leak Live Updates:

2nd April 2018, 12:00 pm - An NGO has filed a plea seeking the re-exam for class 10 Maths exam be held in April instead of July.

1st April 2018, 9:00 pm - The Mother Khajani Public School is under the police scanner because as per reports the school wanted to uplift its image while helping students to score better in the exam.

1st April 2018, 8:00 pm - CBSE has suspended its official who was in-charge of the respective school - Mr. K.S. Rana on the direction of HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar.

1st April 2018, 2:00 pm - Delhi Police arrested three accused of CBSE paper leak, two of them teachers of Mother Khajani Public School (Rishab and Rohit) and one private tutor (Tauqueer). The seals of the exam papers were opened well before the exam, photographed and sent to students over WhatsApp. They were sent to a two-day police custody until further investigations.

31st March 2018, 1:00 pm - A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking relief from the re-exam that is being conducted for Economics.

30th March 2018, 5:30 pm - CBSE Board announced that Class 12 Economics exam will be held on 25th April 2018 for Indian candidates only. No final decision regarding Class 10 Maths exam has yet been taken. If at all it is conducted, it will be done in July 2018.

30th March 2018: Prakash Javadekar promises to bring in a new system into place so that paper leak can be avoided and the discipline of the exam is maintained in future.

30th March 2018: Delhi Crime Branch is also seeking Google's help to identify the sender of the email which was sent to the CBSE chief just before the exam. The team has also identified a total of 10 WhatsApp groups that have 50-60 members each in which the exam paper was circulated before the exam. Few mobile phones have also been detained.

30th March 2018, 11:00 am - Students began protesting outside CBSE head office and Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar's voicing their demands to cancel the re-examination.

29th March 2018, 1:30 pm - Students begin signing online petitions to cancel the re-examination that was initially announced by CBSE. They believe that all the students shall not suffer because of the mistakes of few involved in the scam.

29th March 2018, 1:00 pm - CBSE received an anonymous tip that pointed towards a coaching cente r owner who was responsible for the paper leak . Delhi Police initiates investigations and question more than a dozen of people with respect to the case.

29th March 2018, 11:00 am - Prime Minister Narender Modi sought CBSE's explanation over the paper leak . He urged the HRD Ministry to take stringent measures to curb and deal with the paper leak. Javadekar also assured internal inquiry along with Delhi Police's assistance to get hold of the people responsible for the situation.

28th March 2018 - 29th March 2018: Students took to Twitter to show anger and disappointment over CBSE's decision to conduct re-exam.

28th March 2018, 4:00 pm: CBSE announced that re-examination will be conducted for Class 12 Economics paper and Class 10 Maths paper following reports of the paper leak.