Hyderabad: The Telangana state government on Friday decided to cancel Eamcet-2 and hold a fresh exam. Eamcet-3 is expected to be held in mid-August.
The decision was taken by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao after a four-hour-long meeting with ministers and officials from higher education, law, police and intelligence departments.
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The meeting was convened by Mr Rao at his camp office to decide the fate of Eamcet-2 after CID investigation confirmed that the question papers were leaked days prior to the exam. In all, 138 students were suspected to have benefited from the paper leakage.
Deputy CM Kadiam Srihari, ministers C. Laxma Reddy, Pocharam Srinivas Reddy, chief secretary Rajiv Sharma, DGP Anurag Sharma and Intelligence IG Shivadhar Reddy, CID chief Satyanarayana, law secretary Santhosh Reddy and other officials were present. Mr Rao inquired with officials about the procedures followed elsewhere in the country when question papers were leaked.
Officials replied that till date about 80 paper leak incidents had been reported and the respective governments, agencies had cancelled those exams and had conducted re-exams. They said that various SC and HC judgements were in favour of conducting a re-exam whenever papers were leaked.
