Tripura Madhyamik result scam: Board official sent to police remand
Agartala/UNI: A local court last night sent deputy secretary of Tripura Board of Secondary Education (TBSE) Bikramjit Debbarma to four days police remand for his alleged involvement in result scam of Madhyamik exam in 2014.
He was detained two days ago by the crime branch officials of Tripura police based on the FIR lodged in connection with abnormal distribution of marks to a group of students in board exams as external candidate from the centre run by an NGO.
According to report, in 2014 as many as 36 students had appeared in Madhyamik exams from a centre in Simna in northern part of Mohanpur sub-division in West
Tripura. But when the results were announced, the candidates who wrote exam from the said center were found to secure 70-80 percent marks, which triggered TBSE's suspicion.
“The preliminary investigation showed, those students had never been able to score even pass marks in their previous exams but in the final all of them secured 70-80 percent. During inspection of answer scripts it was found that except the cover page, all the inside pages were in different colours and it is believed that after the exam the answer scripts were replaced in the custody of board, which was under the control of accused officer Debbarma,” said a senior official of TBSE.
The case was referred to crime investigation department of police but was pending for almost four years. After a new president of the board joined, he started persuading the case with police and investigation was resumed.
The investigating team seized all the answer scripts and confirmed the difference in colour and quality of the pages from the government press, and finally Bikramjit Debbarma was detained.
The court sent the accused to police custody and directed him to appear before it on November 26 next.
There have been allegations of large scale corruption in Madhyamik and Higher Secondary results of TBSE for past few years but the then left front government
did not take any action to bring transparency in the exam process, evaluation of answer scripts and tabulation of mark-sheet.
A number of students had challenged their board results and secured number in the board exams after court's direction. Interestingly, after the review of the results, marks were increased in many subjects, but in no case action was taken against for incorrect allocation of marks.
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