Nuh: Staff denies mass cheating charge, students call it ‘routine’

The staff at the school, a centre for Class 10 Haryana government board exams where 600 students of three government schools are taking exams, said no cheating took place.

Refuting the video from Tuesday, the staff said they were strict and students would never get a chance to cheat. The video, meanwhile, purportedly showed several men scaling the walls of the school and a few on the terrace, peeping into the classrooms as exams took place. “The men were creating chaos outside the school and no cheating took place inside. Though they were trying to call out to the students inside, we made sure nothing untoward happened,” said the staff, including the superintendent of the school.

Kurda Ram, an official of Haryana School Education Board, sent as an invigilator to the Tauru school on Thursday, said: “I have been to various districts in Haryana and have not come across such activities. In Nuh, many people accompany students to the centre and it gets difficult to control the crowd. They flout restrictions and throng the premises,” he said.

Nidhi Rohilla, principal of the primary section of the school, maintained the pandemonium was only on the outside and that exams were conducted peacefully. “Our school does not face any problem, all the disruptions are by those outside. We don’t even allow anyone except students to enter the premises. No cheating takes place and students take their exams properly. Police patrol the area, and officers are stationed in different corners of the campus…,” she said.

“This is a routine activity. Friends of the students throw cheating material through window grilles to help students taking exams. Most teachers don’t protest,” said Javed Khan, a Class 10 student at the same centre.

Sheeshpal Malik, a former student, said: “This is an annual affair, and I have been witnessing it regularly. Though police pay visits, it is a formality.”