The Mumbai Crime Branch  detained a minor student from Nagar district of Maharashtra in the HSC paper leak case on Sunday. The math paper was leaked around 45 minutes prior to the exam on WhatsApp. A private college had registered an FIR with the Shivaji Park police after the math paper was found on the cell phone of one of the students who appeared for the exam on Friday. Later this student in Mumbai was also detained.

Supervisor catches student

The paper started at 11 am. According to the FIR, a teacher at Dr Antonio Da Silva High School and Junior College claimed that the supervisor of the school found a cell phone with one of the students after the exams were over and he was collecting the math answer papers. “I called the student in my cabin and the examiner to inform him about the incident as per protocol. We checked the student’s mobile phone in front of him and found that at 10:17 am on March 3 he had got the math paper on Whatsapp. It has been forwarded to him from another Whatsapp number,” the teacher said in his complaint.