Agra student issued board exam pass with photo of Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun!

With Uttar Pradesh Board's Class 10 examinations just around the corner, a student from Agra found that his hall ticket had the photo of batting legend Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun in it.

This happened just a day before the examinations are due to begin and with around a million students set to appear for the exams this year. There is no information on how the mistake occurred.

Not only did the admit card have Arjun's photo on it, it was attested by the college authorities and was even signed by them.

(17/2/16)UP Board issued admit card with Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun's pic to a student of an inter college in Agra pic.twitter.com/SSyYAMsIPi

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Sources told a leading daily, “Scores of admit cards with fake photographs have been pasted on admit cards, so that during examination someone else can appear for paper- ensuring that the actual candidate is passed. You can paste even Hafiz Saeed photo and no one will cross check at examination center, as there are no photographs printed or pasted on attendance sheet of examination center... The entire system is managed. And even if by chance, flying squad caught the impersonator during exam, tean they won’t be able to establish his identity as the picture in admit cards are of some different person. For each such fake admit cards, candidates pay up to Rs 20,000- 30,000 to college administration.”

Meanwhile, District Inspector of schools in Agra Dinesh Kumar told the daily that a committee had been setup to investigate the matter.