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1-cr. scam in Kadapa DSC exam detected

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Involvement of Deputy District Education Officer, four teachers alleged

KADAPA: A scam revolving around the alleged manipulation of Optical Magnetic Reader (OMR) sheets of 46 Secondary Grade Teacher (Telugu) candidates by Deputy DEO Satyanarayana Murthy and four teachers involving an amount of Rs. 1 crore in the Kadapa DSC 2006 examinations had been detected, District Collector M.T. Krishna Babu announced at a press conference here on Sunday.

Incriminating evidence was found of the involvement of Kadapa Deputy DEO Satyanarayana Murthy, school assistant M. Sankaraiah and a teacher, Vaddi Subramanyam, both of Government High School for the Blind here, and A Sundaramaiah, teacher in Chandramouli English medium school at Kadapa, the Collector alleged. Some teachers had acted as conduits and collected between Rs. 3 and Rs. 5 lakhs from 46 DSC candidates, who secured abnormally high marks, he alleged. The Deputy DEO and the said teachers took sealed bundles of OMR sheets from Kadapa and reached Hyderabad by bus at 6 a.m., the day after the DSC exam, and sent away armed policemen on escort, Mr. Krishna Babu explained. The Deputy DEO took the said teachers and six bundles of OMR sheets to his daughter Lakshmi Lavanya's house at Bowenpally in Secunderabad where they manipulated 46 OMR sheets by giving high marks to candidates who paid money, he said. They resealed the bundles and handed them over at the reception centre at Hyderabad at 10 a.m. that day, the Collector said. Satyanarayana Murthy and Sankaraiah were officially deputed to hand over the OMR sheets at Hyderabad, but they unofficially took Sundaramaiah and Subramanyam along with them, he said.

Abnormal marks

Irregularities were detected in SGT Telugu alone so far, he added. Four SGT Telugu candidates secured 97.5 per cent marks, one got 97 per cent, and in all, 153 candidates secured beyond 90 per cent marks, the Collector disclosed. Kadapa DEO Y. Balaiah, who was responsible for proper conduct of DSC is out of station now, he said. Mr. Krishna Babu did not rule out the scope for cancellation of DSC 2006.

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