Vijayapura, Apr 14 (DHNS): A 45-year-old man was stabbed to death by three youths as he told them not to cause disturbance near an SSLC examination centre at Nimbala RS village of Indi taluk in the district on Wednesday.
Ningappa Hanumanta Putani of Nimbala supplied chits for copying to his son Ravi, who was taking the exam at the Gurudev Ranade Jnanadhama High School, through the backdoor of the examination hall. As he was returning home along with his other son Hanumanta, 24, and nephew Manjunath, 24, he saw a group of inebriated youths from Kudagi shouting loudly. He objected to this, saying the noise would disturb students writing the exam.
Three of the youths who were enraged stabbed Ningappa. When Hanumanta and Manjunath came to Ningappa’s rescue, the group stabbed them too, Umesh Tadavalagi, an eyewitness, told Deccan Herald. While Ningappa died on the spot, Hanumanta and Manjunath, who suffered serious injuries, are undergoing treatment at a hospital.
The police have taken two of the suspects, Vilas Shivamurthy Biradar and Suresh Dhanyal, into custody. The other suspect, Basanagouda Biradar, is absconding.
Indi Deputy Superintendent of Police Prasanna Desai said that the police were questioning the two youths who have been arrested.
Teachers take photo of SSLC Hindi question paper before exam, sell it to students
Pandavapura, Apr 14 (DHNS): Two schoolteachers clicked the SSLC Hindi (third-language) question paper the moment it arrived at an examination centre in Pandavapura town on Wednesday morning, shared it on WhatsApp, printed it out and started selling it to students.
Shambunahalli Manjunath, a teacher at Jnana Bandhu School, and Manjunath, a physical education teacher at Vijaya High School, were among the first to get the paper when it arrived at Vijaya College of Education, some time after 9 am. They quickly clicked its pictures on their mobile phones and rushed to the office of a civil engineer where they printed it out.
But police got wind of the matter in the nick of time and raided the office.
They found that the paper was circulated on WhatsApp before making its way to the office of K Purushottam, the civil engineer. The printouts of the Hindi paper were found on the table. A laptop had soft copies of not just Hindi paper, but also Kannada, Social Science, Science and Mathematics papers. The police caught Purushottam and Nanjundaswamy, a teacher at a government primary school. But Shambunahalli Manjunath, Manjunath and an unidentified man fled the spot.
Pandavapura Block Education Officer B Chandrashekar claimed that the papers were sent to the exam centres only at 9.15 am. The seal was opened in the presence of supervisors and distributed to students at 9.30 am. “Despite this, it’s shocking that the paper was leaked,” he said.
Shivamadappa M, DDPI, Mandya, confirmed that the paper that was leaked was original. “The police caught some people trying to photocopy the paper. It was a scanned copy of the original paper circulated on WhatsApp. They were caught printing the papers at 9.30 am,” he said.