Five judges were caught cheating at a postgraduate Master of Law examination in the state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday.
Five judges and two other exam candidates were caught when a special team of examination supervisors made a surprise visit to the exam venue at the Arts and Science College at Kakatiya University.
The candidates were caught jotting down answers from law books hidden under their answer sheets, and from slips and pages torn from textbooks.
[Professor Ramesh, Exam Supervisor]: (Telugu, male)
“When our team was performing the inspection, we caught seven candidates acting dishonestly in the examination.”
It’s believed the Andhra Pradesh High Court acted swiftly on Thursday in suspending the disgraced judges. It has also asked the university to initiate actions against the judges and to submit a comprehensive report on the entire incident.
The court went further by also asking the state government to initiate disciplinary action against all the judges as they have brought disrepute to the law profession.
