Maharashtra: Exam forms, other documents stolen from polytechnic institute

Times of India | 1 week ago | 19-01-2023 | 06:36 am

PUNE: Some people broke into the office of the Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education's distance learning polytechnic institute in Model Colony sometime between December 28 last year and January 16 this year and stole examination forms, merit lists, and other documents and articles totally worth Rs6,000. Institute official Mohammed Shahid Afjal Ahmed Usmani filed a complaint with the Chatushrungi police on Tuesday. Educational documents such as merit lists, examination forms, scholarship documents and affiliation certificates for the period between 2017 and 2019 were stolen from a record room in the students' hostel, police said. The police are trying to ascertain the identity of those responsible with the help of CCTV camera footage.

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