Anxious officials of ASC Degree College were in for a surprise on Tuesday when autorickshaw driver Umashankar T.T. (38) walked in around noon with a bundle of answer scripts. They were the answer scripts of 30 repeaters, who had appeared for the fourth semester Cost Accounting exam in B.Com. They had been left behind in the autorickshaw by two attenders on Monday.
Mr. Umashankar found the answer scripts while cleaning his autorickshaw on Tuesday morning. He dropped them off at ASC Degree College in Rajajinagar 6th Block. College authorities took him to Halasoor Gate police station where a complaint had been filed.
K.N. Ninge Gowda, Registrar (Evaluation), said that the university is yet to accept the answer scripts from the police. “As of now, we will not evaluate them. We will wait for the police to investigate. The answer scripts were out for nearly 24 hours. The CCTV cameras of the college were also not working, which is a cause of concern,” he explained.
Varsity stumped
The attenders were transporting the answer scripts from the college to Central College, Bangalore University. On Monday evening, university officials were stumped on receiving a letter from ASC Degree that a few answer scripts were missing.
Mr. Umashankar told The Hindu that he learnt that they were answer scripts after overhearing the conversation between the two attenders. “Over the past 12 years, I have returned many things, including mobile phones, but this time I knew it was very important.” He spent the entire day running around the police station and the university completing various formalities and was unable to do any other work on Tuesday.
