May 01, 2011
New Delhi: Question papers of the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) were leaked in Uttar Pradesh today forcing the CBSE to postpone the test by a few hours. Cbse also declared a stand by exam date 8 may. Immediately after the question papers were leaked, the CBSE postponed the two exams which were scheduled to begin at 9:30 AM and 2:00 PM today, a senior HRD ministry official said here."The exams for the 1st paper which was scheduled to begin at 9:30 begin at 12:00 PM. The second paper which was to begin at 02:00 PM start at 7:00 PM," the official said.
About 12 lakh students across the country are scheduled to write the prestigious exam at over 1,600 centres in more than 80 cities today.This is for the first time that the AIEEE is being held in the online mode. Nearly one lakh students from 20 cities will take the examination online.
Meanwhile, UP Special Task Force's Senior Superintendent of Police Special Task Force Vijay Prakash said they received a copy of the question paper last night. "We faxed the paper to the CBSE chairman and it was confirmed this morning that the paper was original one," he told PTI.
He said that so far Bihar and Kanpur link have been traced and the STF was working on it. Though sources said that some persons have been detained and raids were carried out, it was not confirmed by the police officials. Meanwhile, Special Director General of Police Brij Lal said that a police informer has revealed that the leaked AIEEE papers were available for Rs. 6 lakh each."Based on the information provided by the informer STF is searching for the accused," he told reporters here.
The leaked paper was recovered in Lucknow, Brij Lal said, adding that the STF was also looking for people arrested in past in connection with paper leak cases. AIEEE is conducted to gain admissions into National Institutes of Technology and other engineering colleges in the country. The Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, entrance exam was also rescheduled due to this. The exam was rescheduled to 4:30 pm. Earlier it was to begin at 3 pm.ndtv.com
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