India, March 15 -- The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) has taken action against a teacher after an inquiry found that Class 6 students were allowed to handle Class 10 answer sheets during evaluation at a school in Satara district. The board has seized the teacher's entire evaluation honorarium and ordered re-evaluation of 125 answer sheets he had checked.

The probe, conducted by the Kolhapur Divisional Board of MSBSHSE at Uttreshwar High School in Vidani village, Phaltan taluka, followed a complaint alleging irregularities in Marathi subject papers for the ongoing SSC examination.

Divisional chairman Rajesh Kshirsagar said examiner Vaibhav Shende admitted during the inquiry that he had allow...