Hyderabad police drops students at exam hall

HYDERABAD: A police official from East Marredpally police station on Wednesday helped some students reach their examination centre on time, by dropping them in the police vehicle, after their bus broke down in Marredpally. The intermediate exams started in Telangana on Wednesday.

The intermediate students of Mahendra Hills Government Junior College in Telangana were travelling in an RTC bus to reach their exam centre. However, they were stranded near East Marredpally check post after the bus suddenly broke down.

When the students were tensed about missing the exam, a police official from Marredpally, Inspector A. Srinivas, stepped in as a Good Samaritan and helped them by dropping around seven to eight students at the exam centre in his patrolling car. 

The photo was shared on social media by the Hyderabad police. Marredpally Inspector A. Srinivas told DC that he was on his routine duty on Wednesday around 8 am. “I spotted some 40 students who were walking towards a road where our team was waiting. The children were walking with their in-charge who asked me to help them to hire some autos as their bus had broken down suddenly. “Though their in-charge managed to hire autos for most of the children, around eight students were still remaining and were waiting for a mode of transport to reach the examination centre. Then I offered a ride in our patrolling vehicle. Earlier, they were bit hesitant because it’s a police vehicle but all of them adjusted in it when I promised to drop them on time to their examination centre,” the Inspector said.

Of the 4,82,360 students registered to take the exam for general and vocational subjects, only 4,61,516 were present. 20,844 candidates, 4.32 per cent of those registered, remained absent.

Two students were not allowed to appear for the paper at the Siddartha College examination centre in Vikarabad because they arrived five minutes late. Three instances of malpractice were identified; one each in Vikarabad, Karimnagar, and Suryapet. Apart from these, the examinations proceeded smoothly and peacefully, without any untoward incidents.