CA Exam Answer Sheets Found With Unauthorised Person in Kolkata

On 24 July, Kolkata Police found 250 Chartered Accountancy exam answer sheets at the residence of an unauthorised individual named Pabitra Ray. The answer sheets are of a CA exam conducted in June 2019.

Ray, an accountant who works at a CA firm, is not an authorised examiner of the Chartered Accountancy exam. Police say that he was checking the answer sheets on behalf of his employer Surajit Dutta, who was the authorised examiner for those copies.

Both Ray and Dutta have now been arrested, but the incident raises questions about the integrity of the exam and the manner in which the papers are checked. The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is the organisation that conducts the CA exams.

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The Institute said it “has already initiated steps to proceed against the delinquent examiner and person in illegal possession of the answer books."