Bihar Board Cancels Results of Rank Holders, Including Topper

The Bihar School Examination Board held a re-test of 13 rank holders of the State Intermediate Examination.

Saurabh Shreshtha (left) and Ruby Rai (right). (Photo: Altered by The Quint)

• The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB), on Saturday, cancelled the result of Science topper, Saurabh Shrestha, and Rahul Kumar, another rank holder from the Science stream, after their performance was not found up to mark in a rigorous re-test of 13 rank holders of the State Intermediate examination.
  
  
• Kumar, who also hails from Bishun Rai college of Vaishali along with Saurabh Shrestha and Arts topper Ruby Rai, is the third topper in 2016 Intermediate examination in science stream.
  
  
• Arts topper Ruby Rai, who could not appear for the re-test on Friday on health grounds, has been given a week’s time to come before a team of experts for authentication of her marks.
  
  
• A total of 13 toppers, had appeared on 3 June, before a team of experts for authentication of the marks obtained by them in the wake of a media expose pointing fingers at their merit.
  
  

(With agency inputs.)

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