No proof against teacher - CID

by Jayampathy JAYASINGHE

Investigations carried out by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) into the alleged leakage of the (GCE) AL Biology question paper in August had found no incriminating evidence against the suspect tuition teacher in Matara, DIG (CID) Nandana Munasighe told the "Sunday Observer."

He said the CID began investigations on the alleged leakage of the question paper following the dossier forwarded to the CID by the Provincial Commissioner of Examinations, Pelawatte in the Matara area.

It was alleged that a private tuition master in Matara had mailed the identical model questions of his tutorial among students, a few weeks prior to the commencement of the (GCE) AL examination on August 12.

According to some newspaper reports, the suspect had earmarked the model questions on his tutorial with high marks and had mailed them to the students. The Ceylon Teachers' Union had lodged a complaint with the Minister of Education.

Subsequent investigations by the CID had revealed that the suspect tuition master was not involved in the distribution of model questions of the Biology paper of the GCE (AL) examination.

The suspect had mailed some parts of the syllabus of the Advanced Level Biology paper to his students.