Reports state that the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) Arts topper in the state's current plus-two examination Ruby Rai has been arrested by the police as she failed in the re-examination.
The board had put on hold the results of the toppers of Arts and Science streams of class XII examination and had called the first seven rank holders of the two streams for a re-test following media expose on some of their purported inability to answer basic questions. "A total of 14 toppers, first seven rank holders each of Arts and Science streams have been called for a written exam as well as interview by a team of experts on June 3 to verify the truth of the results. Their results were also put on hold," BSEB Secretary Harihar Nath Jha had said.
Ruby Rai being taken by the police PTI
Those summoned for re-exam included Arts topper Ruby Rai and Science stream topper Saurabh Kumar, he said. Some news channels had earlier shown the girl who topped the state government's plus two examination in Humanities had purportedly pronouncing 'Political Science' as 'Prodigal Science' and describing it as a subject related to cooking. Similarly, the boy who topped in Science was purportedly unaware of electron and proton.
Both toppers hailed from the Bishun Rai college in Bhagwanpur in Vaishali district. The institution had courted controversy last year as well when the then Education Minister P K Shahi had ordered withholding its results following complaints of large-scale irregularities.
State Education Minister Ashok Choudhary had expressed his anger over "lapse" shown by the Board in publication of results.
