Bihar Cheating Scandal

Students sit in the open for their Class 12 exams with car headlights as their only source of light in a building without electricity, in a video from Bihar, which has struggled with cheating scandals and exam violations for years.

In Bihar, mass and brazen cheating in exams and a scandal involving fake toppers exposed a deep rot in the state's schools. Now there is an example that the problem goes all the way to college.

Bihar school examination topper Ruby Rai wrote names of movies in one answer sheet, the name of poet Tulsidas more than a hundred times in another and poetry in some others, which were then replaced by papers written by 'experts', the police have said.

A schoolboy in Bihar who ranked third in science in Class 12 exams, Rahul Kumar, was arrested this morning as investigations continue into what has come to known as the "topper scam".

Ruby Rai, who topped Bihar's Class 12 exams in the Arts stream this year and was accused of cheating earlier this month, has been arrested by the Special Task Force investigating the case.

Darbhanga University has cancelled the third year examinations at a college in Bihar's Samastipur District, and announced the date for a fresh examination. The decision came after an NDTV report revealed large-scale cheating in the exam on Friday.

The arrest of Delhi's former law minster Jitender Singh Tomar this week has highlighted how stretched the education system is in Bihar, from where the police allege he procured a forged law degree.

Images of parents scaling the walls of an exam centre to help students cheat drew international attention to the poor state of education in Bihar. A random check at a centre where exam papers are being checked, reveals that even some evaluators would need help to pass.

Police in Bihar have arrested around 1,000 aspiring constables for using "middlemen" to sit their exams for them, in the latest cheating scandal to hit the state, an official said on Monday.

Two days after two judges delivered their report on allegations of spot-fixing in the country's top T-20 tournament, the Indian Premier League or IPL, the Bombay High court has said their findings are invalid. The judges had been appointed to investigate the scandal by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). They concluded that two teams ...

Students sit in the open for their Class 12 exams with car headlights as their only source of light in a building without electricity, in a video from Bihar, which has struggled with cheating scandals and exam violations for years.

In Bihar, mass and brazen cheating in exams and a scandal involving fake toppers exposed a deep rot in the state's schools. Now there is an example that the problem goes all the way to college.

Bihar school examination topper Ruby Rai wrote names of movies in one answer sheet, the name of poet Tulsidas more than a hundred times in another and poetry in some others, which were then replaced by papers written by 'experts', the police have said.

A schoolboy in Bihar who ranked third in science in Class 12 exams, Rahul Kumar, was arrested this morning as investigations continue into what has come to known as the "topper scam".

Ruby Rai, who topped Bihar's Class 12 exams in the Arts stream this year and was accused of cheating earlier this month, has been arrested by the Special Task Force investigating the case.

Darbhanga University has cancelled the third year examinations at a college in Bihar's Samastipur District, and announced the date for a fresh examination. The decision came after an NDTV report revealed large-scale cheating in the exam on Friday.

The arrest of Delhi's former law minster Jitender Singh Tomar this week has highlighted how stretched the education system is in Bihar, from where the police allege he procured a forged law degree.

Images of parents scaling the walls of an exam centre to help students cheat drew international attention to the poor state of education in Bihar. A random check at a centre where exam papers are being checked, reveals that even some evaluators would need help to pass.

Police in Bihar have arrested around 1,000 aspiring constables for using "middlemen" to sit their exams for them, in the latest cheating scandal to hit the state, an official said on Monday.

Two days after two judges delivered their report on allegations of spot-fixing in the country's top T-20 tournament, the Indian Premier League or IPL, the Bombay High court has said their findings are invalid. The judges had been appointed to investigate the scandal by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). They concluded that two teams ...