42 teachers in Andhra Pradesh arrested & suspended over exam malpractices

42 teachers of various schools across Andhra Pradesh have so far been found guilty of indulging in malpractices in the ongoing annual examinations of Class 10, and have been arrested and suspended for the same.

Authorities view the malpractices as deliberate acts of mischief by some teachers to show the government in a poor light, even as the teachers’ unions remained silent on the issue, leading to suspicions. The Class 10 public examinations were being held from April 27 after two years as they were not conducted in the previous two years owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Education Department authorities detected the malpractices on Day One when the Telugu question paper was photographed and circulated on WhatsApp from Kurnool district, an hour and a half after the examination began. The same happened on the second day during the Hindi exam and the third day during the English exam as well in Satya Sai, Kurnool and other districts.

“In all these cases we immediately detected the hand of some teachers who, with the help of some outsiders spread rumours about ‘leak’ of the question papers. This was nothing but gross mischief as there was no leak of the question paper but unnecessary apprehensions were sought to be created among students and parents,” a senior Education Department official said. The respective district Collectors, along with the police, cracked down on the mischief-makers and arrested them under the AP Public Examinations (Prevention of Malpractices and Unfair Means) Act, 1997. The official said that although the law was enacted 25 years ago, this was the first time the teachers were arrested under its provisions against malpractice.

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