Before Ganesh Kumar, last year’s Bihar class 12 board topper Ruby Rai met the same fate

Rubi Rai, last year’s topper of Bihar School Examination Board higher secondary exam topper scam. PTI photo

In a scam that tarnished the image of the state’s education system last year, Ruby Rai, a student of Vishun Roy College in Vaishali district who topped in the arts category, suffered a similar fate after she failed to answer basic questions and went on to describe political science as prodigal science that taught cooking. Following the incident, the state government had ordered a Special Investigation Team probe into the matter. Rai had accumulated a staggering 444 marks out of 500 in the humanities stream. However,  on camera she didn’t even appear to know the number of subjects in her course.

Rai was sent to judicial custody after her arrest on June 25 last year in connection with the case. Subsequently, she was shifted from Beur jail to a remand home on grounds that she was a minor. This happened after a district court in Patna accepted that she was a minor on the basis of her matriculation certificate.