HYDERABAD: The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination that began on Wednesday went off smoothly with no cases of mass-copying or leakage of question papers reported from anywhere.

Paper-I of first language was conducted on the first day.

Maximum cases

According to Director of Government of Examinations G.V. Subba Rao, only 59 cases of malpractice were booked with maximum cases of 14 being booked in Warangal district.

Two invigilators were suspended for indulging in malpractice while six Chief Superintendents, five departmental officers and 25 invigilators were relieved of examination duties for negligence. Meanwhile, the Hyderabad district administration has suspended Riyaz Ahmed, Lab Assistant of Ashraful Madarsa (Aided) in Murtuza Nagar for failing to pay the examination fee to the Board despite collecting from the students.

In a statement here Hyderabad DEO Mallamma said that Riyaz Ahmed collected examination fee and attendance fee from 40 students appearing privately and did not deposit with the board.

The students were ultimately not allowed to write the test.

Collector R.V. Chandravadan said that 26 centres in the city had been identified as problematic and sitting squads had been constituted for the English paper to be held on March 24.

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