A division bench of Chief Justice L Narasimha Reddy and Justice Vikash Jain took the state government to task over report of mass scale copying in the matriculation examination.
The court converted report published in an english daily into PIL and directed state police chief to stop copying immediately.
The court issued summons to Education Department to appear before it on next Friday to respond on the subject.
Chief Minister Nitish Kumar wasted no time and called a high level review meeting with Education minister P K Shahi, DGP P K Thakur, Principal Secretary Home Amir Subhani and his counterpart in Education department R K Mahajan in his Secretariat chamber and instructed them to ensure cheating-free matriculation examination, an official statement said.
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The CM ordered action against policemen and magistrates deployed on examination duty if found involved in abetting cheating.
He said lawful action would be initiated against teachers, policemen and magistrates deployed in those centres.
The four centres where exam has been cancelled included Vidya Niketan Mahnar and St Francis School Mahnar in Vaishali district where visuals showed people scaling three to four storey exam centres to pass on chits to their wards.
Mahajan said report has been sought within 24 hour from other centres across the state where media have reported cheating for action.
Sub Divisional Officer (SDO), Sadar, Saharsa Rajesh Kumar Singh said that seven home guards have been taken into custody while one managed to ran away by freeing his hand. Scores of chits and money were recovered from these home guards on duty at four centres in Saharsa district, he said.