A total of 118 students were caught red-handed while cheating in the
secondary school certificate examinations over the past two days, said
controller of examinations of the Board of Secondary Education Karachi Noman
Ahsan on Wednesday.
A special vigilance team paid surprise visits to different examination centres
in the city and caught 118 students who were cheating in exams, he added.
He said that 17 students were caught in the Girls and Boys Secondary School
(GBSS) in Shah Faisal, 17 in GBSS Saudabad Liaquat Market, 38 in GBSS Port
Qasim, four in GBHSS Jam Murad Ali Gadap and the remaining from other
examination centres.
The vigilance teams seized the examination papers of the students and handed
over their cases to a committee.
Meanwhile, the head of the chief minister’s vigilance team, Nazeer Chakrani,
also took round of different examination centres.
He said that the purpose of constituting the vigilance team was to discourage
the culture of cheating. He visited Fazlul Rehman Government Girls Secondary
School Urdu Bazaar, NGV Government Boys Secondary School, Ibrahim Ali Bhai
Government School Nisthar road, Dua High School, DHA Model School, Junior Model
School and DSKBZ College.