Kaushik Kannan By

Express News Service

MADURAI: Remember the Class XII boards scam in Bihar last year wherein the toppers hardly had any clue about their subjects? Something similar happened at the India Post recruitment examination for TN Postal Circle, if the version of some local aspirants is anything to go by.

They smelt a rat as several students from Haryana got high scores in the exams, shockingly, also in the Tamil language paper. Express managed to obtain the marksheets of two students, Dinesh and Rahul Kumar, both from Haryana who scored a jaw-dropping 24 and 22 in the Tamil paper respectively out of 25.

When Express tried reaching both of them, their phones were switched off. Suspecting forgery, more than 40 candidates submitted a petition to the district administration officials at the Madurai Collectorate on Thursday.

“The results for the exam for recruitment of Postman and Mail Guard were published on Tuesday. I saw my result and started to check the marks of candidates next to my number. I saw that several students from Haryana had scored high marks in Tamil paper, mostly above 20 out of 25. I was shocked and alerted my friends,” said one of the candidates on condition of anonymity.

“The Tamil paper was tough even for us whose mother tongue is Tamil and who studied it in school. I wonder how candidates from Haryana managed to get such high scores.”

Another student claimed he tried calling one of the toppers from Haryana, on the mobile number given in the mark sheet.

“I went to the website, typed his registration ID and got his phone number. I tried talking in English, but he couldn’t converse. Then I asked him if he knows Tamil, he responded in Hindi, saying mujhe Tamil malloom hai (I know Tamil).”

Senior officials in the postal department said they were unaware of the matter. ‘Yenna rascalaa?’ as SRK would say.