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Police examine ‘missing’ 276 answer scripts

A day after a bunch of 276 answer scripts of the third semester M.A. Sanskrit Sahitya exam of the Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit was discovered as mysteriously as they had disappeared, the Kalady police on Tuesday examined them in the presence of finger print and forensic experts and confirmed that they were indeed the scripts that had gone missing. Having registered a case of theft on July 22 on a petition by the university authorities, the police have decided to continue with their probe to piece together the events that led to the disappearance and then the re-emergence of the scripts. “Since they are pivotal to the higher studies of the students, we will hand the answer scripts over to the university authorities on the assurance that they will be produced before the court on demand,” said P.A. Davis, Sub Inspector, Kalady. Though alerted about the discovery of the answer scripts from the exam wing on Monday, the police had sealed the room and declined to confirm that they were indeed the ones that had gone missing without examining them in the presence of scientific experts.