Updated On: 10 March, 2023 06:14 AM IST | Mumbai | Faizan Khan
Crime branch officials suspect institute of attempting to unfairly boost students’ scores

The Unit 5 team with the five accused at the police commissioner’s office on Thursday
Crime Branch officials believe that the Ahmednagar-based Matoshri Bhagubai Bambare Agricultural and Science College allegedly leaked the HSC maths paper to its students an hour prior to the exam in order for them to come out with flying colours. The college teachers and staff allegedly sold the papers to certain parents for Rs 10,000.
A court in south Mumbai has remanded the five accused, including the principal of the institution and two teachers, in five-day police custody. Unit 5 of the Mumbai Crime Branch took the suspects into custody from Ahmednagar on Wednesday night. According to sources, the crime branch has discovered that the college broke the seal an hour before the exams and sold it to a small number of students. The police have also discovered that some of the students of the college itself received the maths question paper way before the exam was conducted.