A 30-year-old teacher from Malad has been arrested by the Vile Parle police on Tuesday for allegedly leaking the HSC Chemistry paper to a group of students on Saturday morning. He allegedly sent the question paper in a students’ WhatsApp group of 17 people. A 17-year-old student who reached the exam centre late was found suspicious by the principal and police personnel present there. They had checked her mobile phone and found the Chemistry question paper on it. The police are probing the 16 other students in the WhatsApp group.

The accused teacher, identified as Mukesh Yadav, also takes tuitions for SSC and HSC students in Malad West.   According to the police the incident occurred on Saturday morning at a Vile Parle college. The investigation officer in the case said, “When the college principal and a police constable at the centre asked the student why she was late, she replied it was due to traffic. The principal and constable found her behaviour suspicious and asked for her mobile phone to check. She refused to give it.”