3 min readPuneFeb 12, 2026 10:10 PM IST
The first day of the Maharashtra Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) board examinations on February 10 saw two cases of mass copying – one each in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar and Beed districts. While an FIR was filed in the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar case on the same day, the FIR in Beed was registered on February 11. In total, the English paper conducted on the first day saw 42 cases of malpractice reported across the state. No cases of mass copying were recorded on the second and third days of the examinations, authorities said.
In the Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar case, the FIR was filed against 24 people under sections of The Maharashtra Prevention of Malpractices at University, Board and Other Specified Examinations Act, 1982 and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Section 3(5). According to the FIR lodged by the Block Education Officer, the mass copying incident was detected at Rashtriya Higher Secondary School in Jaitapur village of Kannad taluka.
CCTV footage from the school allegedly showed teachers distributing ‘micro xerox’ copies of question papers to students across various classrooms. Students were also seen writing answers while sitting together. The FIR has named exam supervisors, the centre head, and the concerned presidents and secretaries.
The second FIR was registered at Chausala police station in Beed against 17 people. At the Arts and Science Junior College examination centre, CCTV cameras were installed in only seven of the 16 classrooms. The footage reportedly showed supervisory staff assisting students in malpractice by providing copies of the question paper. It was also observed that the help of some unidentified persons from outside the centre was taken to supply the copies. The centre director and 16 others have been named in the FIR.
Of the 42 malpractice cases reported on the first day, 10 were registered in the Pune division, one in Nagpur, three in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, 22 in Amravati, four in Nashik, two in Latur, and none in Mumbai, Kolhapur and Konkan divisions.
The Hindi paper conducted on the second day of the HSC examinations saw two malpractice cases reported across the state. Marathi and other language papers were held on the third day, February 12, during which 30 malpractice cases were registered. However, none of these involved mass copying, said Nandkumar Bedse, interim chairperson of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE).
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