Seven students questioned in Sivsagar after Geography paper ‘leak’

Seven students in Assam’s Sivsagar district are being questioned in connection with the alleged leak of Class 10 state board’s Geography paper, police said on Sunday.

They are all ‘admins’ of a WhatsApp group through which the purported first page of the Geography question paper was circulated on Saturday, he said.

Sivsagar SP Subhrajyoti Borah told PTI that they had received a request from their Nagaon counterparts for calling these students for questioning.

Two students stayed overnight at the children’s room in the police station, while the rest returned home and have been called for further questioning on Sunday, Borah said.