Don't know how I topped, am just a village girl: Bihar 'topper' Ruby Rai
Patna: The fake Class 12 'topper' Ruby Rai, who was arrested in Patna for bribing officials to get highest marks has leaded innocence in her statement to the police, and claimed that she only wanted to pass the test.
“I am just a village girl. I do not know how I topped the sate,” the Hindustan Times reported Rai as saying.
Rai a student of Vishnu Rai College, was arrested on Saturday after she wrote only one sentence in a re-test of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), and was sent to a 14-days judicial custody.
In the subsequent questioning by the police, Rai acknowledged that the principal of VR college, Bachcha Rai was a distant relative of hers, and though she did not have any contact with him, did not rule out the possibility of her father intervening.
In the re-test, Ruby Rai reportedly wrote only one line “Tulsidasji, Pranam” (salutations Tulsidasji) when asked to write an essay on the Hindi saint poet, claiming that she forgot what she studied.
Ruby was among the toppers whose results were scrapped. Her comments during a TV interview after she was declared the topper in Humanities stream this year had led to the lid being taken off from the toppers scam in the state.
She had pronounced Political Science which was one of her subjects as "Prodikal science" which according to her taught cooking.
After skipping two summons to appear before a team of subject experts for reassessment of her exam performance, Ruby, enrolled from the controversial Vishun Roy college in Vaishali, arrived at BSEB office on Saturday to face a written re-test as well as interview.
Meanwhile, during questioning the private assistant (PA) of former BSEB chairman Lalkeshwar Singh revealed that Rs 15 lakh was charged for declaring toppers through dubious means.
The PA, Vikash Chandra, further revealed that a sum of Rs 10 lakh was charged from a failed student to give them pass certificates, he said.
Singh, his former JD(U) MLA wife Usha Sinha, Vishun Roy college secretary-cum principal Bachha Rai and nearly a dozen others have been arrested in the degree racket case.
