PESHAWAR, Aug 20: More than a dozen candidates who appeared in the M.A. private examination on Monday lost their mobile phone sets when some unidentified people took away the phones with whom the candidates deposited their sets on the instruction of the superintendent of examination hall at the Government Higher Secondary School No-1.

When the candidates were entering in the examination hall at the upper portion of the newly-constructed building of the school, they were instructed to deposit their mobile phone sets and other materials with staff members outside the examination hall.

The candidates handed over their phone sets to the school staffers, sitting at the hall’s entrance.

When they completed their exam papers and came out of the hall, the people with whom they had deposited their phone sets had disappeared.

One of the candidates, Awal Khan, said that they had requested to the superintendent that they would switch off their phones and place inside the hall but they were not allowed.

He said that the principal of the school declined to take the responsibility and disowned the people who had taken away the cell phones.

Another candidate Ali Sher alleged that examination staff misbehaved with the candidates. Some candidates preferred to walk out from the hall due to bad attitude of the staff, he added.