19 arrested for leaking SLC question papers/ 14 students exempted in Salyan/66-year-old man appeared in SLC exam

19 persons including an exam centre chief have been arrested on charge of leaking the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) question papers in Morang on Thursday Morning.

Police detained Dr. Uddab Pokharel, chief of the exam centre at Star Boarding School (SBS), Biratnagar and Dilli Pokhrel, Asst. chief of the exam centre, and sixteen others, all of whom are associated with different tuition centres in the district, for leaking the question papers, informed SP Dipak Thapa.

The other arrestees have been identified as Manish Sohani Swornakar of Cosmic Education Center at Biratnagar-14, Tika Dhakal, Lilam Pradhan, Prashant Shrestha, Ranjan Shahi, Bhisma Dhamala, Anuj Dahal, Saroj Bhattarai,Saurav Kharel, Ram Thandaar, Yubaraj Bastola, Upendra Mandal, Durga Poudel, Gaurav Ranbansi, Mitra Dhamala and Nirmal Pradhan.

The different tuition centres are Excel Academy, Ideal Education Centre, Royal Star Tuition Centre and Purbanchal Education Centre. All of them were arrested while they were making photocopies of the question papers. Exam centre chief Pokharel is also the owner of Excel Academy and the principal of Star Boarding School.

The leaked question papers were confiscated 10 minutes before the commencement of today’s exam scheduled to start at 8:00 am.

14 students exempted in Salyan

14 students, in Salyan, were exempted from the exam on Thursday for cheating during English exam in Tribhuwan Higher Secondary School, Khalanga Centre, source confirmed.

66-year-old man appeared in SLC exam

Aash Bahadur Gurung, 66-year-old man, of Bijayabasti in Parsa district is giving SLC exam from the examination centre situated at Sharashwoti Higher Secondary School.

His desire to earn higher education after passing SLC has encouraged him to continue study even at this old age, he told RSS.