IGNOU Question Paper Leak: FIR registered, students quizzed

Days after question paper of BCS-031 test of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) got leaked, the Delhi Police has registered an FIR and questioned over a dozen students, an officer said on Monday. According to reports, the question paper of C++ was leaked on WhatsApp on December 5. An official of the varsity got to know about it when the paper was shared on a message sharing group of which he was a member. Following this, IGNOU Registrar S.G. Swami informed the police and an FIR was registered on Saturday on charges of cheating and criminal conspiracy in Dabri Police Station of Dwarka district in the national capital.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Anto Alphonse said, "We are investigating the case of IGNOU question paper leak and trying to locate the starting point from where it originated on WhatsApp." As per reports, Swami got confirmation that the question paper was leaked from the Dwarka examination centre under Dabri Police Station and he alerted observers of various examination centres in Delhi.

"Since the matter was highly sensitive, we informed the Chairman about the leak. During the inquiry, we found the same question paper on mobile phones of several candidates," said Vijay Pal, the observer of Dwarka centre. The investigation revealed that the question paper was transmitted first from one group of students belongs to a coaching centre in Dwarka. According to the officer, although IGNOU has mentioned a phone number in the FIR, it is yet to be established whether it was the origin point of the paper.