SILCHAR: Mahbabul Haque, chancellor of a private varsity, who also heads a foundation that runs schools in Assam, was arrested Saturday in connection with alleged irregularities in CBSE exams at a school run by him.
After Haque, chancellor of USTM, was picked up from home in Guwahati, six teachers were taken into custody. They included principal of CPS in Patharkandi of Sribhumi, a district bordering Bangladesh earlier known as Karimganj. The school is under Haque’s Guwahati-based ERDF, which runs USTM.
CM Himanta Biswa Sarma revealed authorities were monitoring the “racket for a long time”. “Ahead of exams, centres of students were changed. By promising 30 extra marks, 247 students from Goalpara, Nagaon, and Kamrup were taken to CPS. When students did not get the facility, they created a ruckus, thus bringing the racket to light,” he said.
Haque claimed he had been “summoned” by the cops “for not allowing students to resort to cheating”. TNN
