Board yet to decide on missing Madhyamik papers

Express News Service Posted: May 05, 2008 at 0121 hrs
Kolkata, May 4 The West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) is still undecided over the fate of 41 students whose Madhyamik answer scripts were lost from Surya Sen Street while being carried by a retired schoolteacher.

An FIR was lodged at Muchipara police station in the first week of March this year.

The teacher had reported that a youth claiming to be related with someone known to him offered to carry one of the bags containing the scripts but he soon disappeared. The bundle contained scripts of physical science paper.

“We have not decided what to do but any decision will be taken keeping in mind the interests of students,” WBBSE secretary Swapan Sarkar.

The results of the Madhaymik examination are usually declared by May.

However, with the three-tier panchayat elections scheduled from May 11 in the state the board has not decided on the date for the publication of the results this year.