In a shocking revelation, the police have said that Bihar school examination topper Ruby Rai wrote names of movies in one answer sheet, the name of poet Tulsidas more than a hundred times in another and poetry in some others, which were then replaced by papers written by ‘experts’.
Patna senior superintendent of police Manu Maharaj, who received a copy of the report from the forensic science laboratory (FSL) on Saturday said, the handwriting on the answer sheets of Rai were not hers but of the experts who wrote for her, reported Hindustan Times.
Ruby, who was declared the top scorer in Political Science, was tripped by a television interview in which she said the subject taught her was cooking. She was controversially arrested and then placed in a juvenile home with several government officials objecting to her detention as excessive action against a teenager.
SSP Manu Maharaj told HT that out of the six papers in class XII examination, Ruby wrote only the Home Science paper while the remaining five papers – Hindi, English, Geography, Political Science and Music – were written by a team of ‘experts’.
“The report also mentions that many answer sheets did not even have the board’s watermark, proving they were inserted, post the examination,” the SSP said.
He said the findings established that the answer sheets were not procured from board but from elsewhere. The reports of forensic test of other examinations sheets of ‘toppers’ were still awaited.
