Hyderabad: With the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Telangana establishing that the EAMCET II question paper was leaked from a printing press in New Delhi, the state government was reportedly considering cancelling the common entrance test and ordering a fresh sitting.
Eamcet is a common entrance test for the admission in medical, engineering and agriculture courses in Telangana.
Officials from the CID have arrested three suspects in connection with the alleged leak, amid allegations some coaching centres received the leaked question paper in advance.
What aroused the suspicions of a paper leak was the surprisingly better performance by some of the students in the Eamcet II compared to the Eamcet I.
As the government has already conducted the test twice putting a lot of pressure on the students, the parents were now opposing any move to cancel the second test and conduct a third test.
As part of their investigation the CID officials visited parts of Warangal district on Wednesday and questioned students who had attained high marks in the Eamcet II held on July 9.
Parents of some of the students who gathered in Hyderabad to meet the medical and health education minister Lakshma Reddy demanded that strong punishment should be meted out to those responsible for the leakage of question papers but not to make the students suffer.
They wanted the government to start the counselling process immediately to admit the meritorious students.
Speculation was rife that the state government had made up its mind to cancel the Eamcet II and order a fresh test immediately.
