Overview
- The university informed students that a B.Tech fourth-semester exam was canceled at the last minute on Friday after officials found nine sealed envelopes of question papers missing from the University Teaching Department.
- Students protested on campus and about 200 examinees were left waiting when the exam was postponed and no replacement papers were provided.
- Gandhinagar police have registered an FIR and begun a criminal probe into the missing packets while investigators seek to trace who accessed the storage area.
- Vice-Chancellor Alok Sharma issued a show-cause notice to Controller of Examinations Dr. Archana Tiwari and the university has formed an internal enquiry committee to examine procedures and responsibility.
- Preliminary findings point to major security lapses — no CCTV in the storage room, one cupboard found open though its lock was intact, and a broken window — raising questions about chain-of-custody for exam papers and the need for wider procedural reforms across RGPV-affiliated colleges.