RAWALPINDI: The controller examinations of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Rawalpindi on Thursday caught red-handed three persons impersonating in the 9th grade exam in place of students.

The SSC Part-I papers of Persian, geometrical and technical drawing, and military sciences and civics, geometrical commercial and Al Quran (Darsi Nizami) were conducted on Thursday.

The BISE had postponed these papers on May 26 due to the long march of the PTI.

On Thursday, BISE Controller Examinations Prof Nasir Mehmood Awan visited Dhariala Saghan centre in Gujar Khan and found the main door of the centre locked. A class-4 employee was sitting in front of a laptop with a lot of exam-related materials lying in the trash beside him.

Prof Awan started comparing the pictures and names of the candidates in the hall and the roll number list. With the help of his fellow board members Khalid Sanbal and Shabbir Ahmed, he caught three boys giving exams in place of the actual students. The boys confessed to the crime and named some of the teachers at the same school who had helped them to sit the exam.

The matter was reported to the police who launched an investigation and were likely to arrest the suspects.

Earlier, Prof Awan paid a surprise visit to the Boys High School Jund Najjar at 8:50am and expressed anger over the presence of two unrelated persons in the centre and confiscated their mobile phones.

He also sent a complaint about the absence of the deputy superintendent from the centre without informing the authorities concerned.

In May, a papers’ leak scandal rocked the district. The Punjab government removed BISE chairman Dr Khalid Mehmood and suspended controller examinations Shahinshah Babar Khan. Moreover, seven officials of the official confidential press were suspended and replaced with new officials.

Chief Minister Hamza Shehbaz constituted a three-member committee to inquire into the leakage of papers of Mathematics (evening session), Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science (morning session) of the Secondary School Certificate Part-11 annual examinations.

BISERawalpindi spokesman Arslan Cheema told Dawn that after the papers leak scandal, strict monitoring was conducted in the examination centres. He said the controller examinations and other senior officials were on their toes to make sure the exams were held in a transparent manner.

Published in Dawn,June 17th, 2022