Three private colleges chiefs held on charge of question leak

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Press Trust of India Bhubaneswar
Last Updated : Mar 26 2013 | 8:15 PM IST
In a major breakthrough in the Plus-II science question paper leak, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police have arrested heads of three privately run colleges.
"These three private college chief had bought Physics question paper from Devendra Behera, the deputy secretary of the Council of Higher Secondary Education posted at Sambalpur," Additional Director General of Police in-charge of Crime Branch B K Sharma said.
Sharma said the three Saroj Mohanty, Principal of Lambodar Science College of Kalahandi, Akshya Rath, chairman of Om Maa Saraswati Institute of Science and Technology of Rajgangpur and Rajendra Malla, Chaityana College of Sundergarh, were arrested last night.
With this, the total number of arrest in the question paper leak was six, Sharma said.
Earlier, the physics examination on March 7 had been cancelled after the report of the question paper leak.
The government had ordered the Crime Branch to probe the matter.
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First Published: Mar 26 2013 | 8:15 PM IST

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