Vice-principal caught copying

Vice-principal caught copying
Pradeep Kaushal

JULY 18: Rajastha College vice-principal Shashi Sahay was caught copying during the LLB (first year) examination here on Monday. Sahay, an associate professor of political science at Rajasthan University, currently holds the post of vice-principal in the college, which is affiliated to the university.

A flying squad caught Sahay in the course of a raid carried out at the Law College on the university campus. Sources said Sahay was frisked following a tip-off and a copying slip, known as "kartoos" in the local parlance, was recovered from her.

She was appearing for the Law of Torts examination. The squad made out a case of "use of unfair means" against her, while the examination centre superintendent lodged a case under the anti-copying law at the Gandhi Nagar police station. Her arrest is expected soon.

``I have been framed. This is all part of teachers' politics,'' Sahay said. She claimed that as soon as the Flying Squad came to the examination hall at 9am, they came straight to her and started frisking her. When they searched her shoulder bag, they recovered a slip of paper, which was part of notes that had ``inadvertently'' got left in the bag, she said. Sahay added that the FIR for a case of its kind is unprecedented.

University sources hinted at action against her, starting with a suspension. Rajasthan University Student Union president Raj Kumar Sharma here today flayed Sahay's copying act and demanded action against her. Rajasthan is notorious for copying. Meenakshi Chandrawat, a Congress MLA and state president of the National Students' Union of India, was recently caught copying and was, thereafter, fired by Congress president Sonia Gandhi from her post. Earlier, an IAS officer, AK Hemkar, was caught copying during a law examination.