Uproar erupts at exam centre, some students injured
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal/Imphal, February 25 2023:
A section of students appearing in the ongoing Class-XII examination created a scene at ACME Higher Secondary School at Yairipok today, injuring a handful of students in the process.
Though it is not yet confirmed what provoked the students to destroy school properties, at least six student organisations have alleged that the students might have been frustrated for not allowing them to cheat in today's paper (Manipuri) of the CoHSEM examination while our Thoubal correspondent reported that the agitating students sought some additional time after the warning bell was rung.
It is reported that 15 students and one female teacher reportedly fell unconscious and they were treated at Yairipok Community Health Centre.
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After the exam was over, some students started pelting stones toward the school as they claimed that additional time was allotted to others but not to them.
It is reported that the agitating students destroyed a computer set in the Principal's room of the school, desks, benches and other valuables.
Secretary of CoHSEM Ch Biren has taken stock of the situation.
Meanwhile, Private School Development Committee, Thoubal has lodged a complaint to Thoubal police station to take up actions against eight students namely Md Salam Khan Syed of Yairipok Tulihal Mayai Leikai, BM Asad of Tobokpi Dam Makhong, Md Yaleiya Khan of Keirao Makting Mayai Leikai, Feroz Ali of Khergao Thambalkhong, Huidrom Sanatomba Singh of Yairipok Huidrom Leikai, Y Inoacha Singh of Yairipok Ingourok Khunou, Keinoumayum Irfan of Yairipok Tulihal and Kh Mustakim of Yairipok Changamdabi Mayai Leikai.
Reacting sharply to the alleged aggression by a section of students giving the Class XII examination at ACME Higher Secondary School, six student organisations have appealed to the State Government to find out the misbehaving students and take up exemplary actions against them.
The six student organisations are MSF, DESAM, KSA, SUK, AIMS and another student body.
In a joint statement, the student organisations said that some students giving the CoHSEM examination at ACME Higher Secondary School, Yairipok vandalised school properties and pelted stones toward the school, injuring some students in the process.
They also said that they condemned the incident.
The student organisations said that they hurried to the location soon after receiving the reports about the agitation.
Claiming that some students of Azad Higher Secondary School giving the examination at ACME Higher Secondary School started vandalising the desks and benches of the school, apart from pelting stones, the student organisations alleged that the students might have resorted to violence for not allowing them to cheat.
They said that the school authority conducted the examination strictly and it frustrated a section of students.
Altogether 405 students of Azad Higher Secondary School are giving the examination at ACME Higher Secondary School.
Saying that the State must not take the incident lightly as tearing answer scripts and destroying school properties for not 'allowing to cheat '' were shameful, they urged the authorities concerned to find out the misbehaving students and take up strict actions against them and also give proper counselling.