BHUBANESWAR: A college instructor was on Saturday arrested for allegedly leaking summative assessment-II query papers of Class I to VIII on his spouse’s YouTube channel.
The accused Jagannath Kar (29) of Jhadanga village in Jajpur district, is an assistant instructor at Gopinath Jew nodal higher main faculty in Sridharpur and his spouse Rutupurna Pati (27) runs the YouTube channel – ‘ProAnswer’. Rutuparna can be an accused however she was served a discover and let off because the couple have an 18-month-old daughter.
In a bid to make fast cash by rising the subscriber base and likes/share of their content material, the couple uploaded the query papers on their YouTube channel on March 9, six days forward of the examinations. The channel has over 25,000 subscribers and 103 movies.
Kar had taken the query papers on behalf of the headmistress of Itara main faculty from the cluster useful resource centre coordinator. Earlier than handing over the query papers to the headmistress, he took the query papers to his home the place he and Rutupurna photographed them utilizing a cell phone and uploaded them on their YouTube channel on March 15.
The then state challenge director of Odisha College Schooling Programme Authority (OSEPA), Anupam Saha, had lodged a grievance on this reference to the Cyber Crime and Financial offence police station right here basing on which a case was registered on March 18.
Throughout investigation, police arrested one other YouTuber Samir Sahu (21) of Khandadeuli village in Ganjam district on March 30 for importing the query papers on his channel – ‘Samir Academic’. Investigation revealed Sahu had procured the query papers from the accused couple. “Two cellphones, one laptop computer and 9 reply sheets have been seized from Kar and his spouse. Additional probe is on,” stated a police officer.
