Bengaluru: After candidates who appeared for a clerical exam were forced to strip down to their underwear and attend their examination by the Army in a recruitment drive in Patna, an examination centre in Mysuru has forced a student to cut down the sleeves of his shirt in order to appear for the JEE exams held across the country on Sunday.
According to reports, students who reached the Sadvidya College in Mysuru to attend the examination were in for a shock when they were asked by the authorities to manage a change in clothes as soon as possible or skip the exam.
After realising that it was impossible to manage a change in clothes at the last minute, as all the local shops were shut owing to the weekend, an 18-year-old was left with no option but to cut out his sleeves. Though he pleaded with the examiners, claiming it to be his lucky shirt, it found no takers. His suggestion to undergo a thorough frisking was also ignored.
Another young woman who turned up at the exam venue wearing a full sleeved kurta was sent back home to change, but never returned.
Reports quoted CBSE officials as saying that the authorities of the college were only doing their duty, and that they had received special instructions from the top authorities in the board that students sporting brooches, large buttons, flowers, programmable watches or full sleeve shirt must be allowed to appear for the exam.
