A total of 17 school students were given Transfer Certificates without the knowledge of the principal and the school authorities. It has come to light that the website of the state education department was hacked. The incident took place at Kelappan Memorial Government Vocational Higher Secondary School at Tavanur in Malappuram district.
These students took admission in the school this year. The Kuttippuram police has registered a case and started an investigation into the matter based on the complaint of the school principal.
The Transfer Certificates (TC) were given to children by visiting the official website hscap.kerala.gov.in. The incident came to the attention of the school principal during the nominal roll inspection of the first year examination.
Three students in Commerce, two students in Humanities and twelve students in Science were granted TC without the knowledge of the Principal. Usually, TCs are granted by logging in with principal’s user id and password through the official website. The police have sought the help of the cyber cell to find out from which computer the login was done.
Apart from the principal, two other persons are aware of the user id and password used to login. It is being checked whether the login was done by someone else from outside the school.
While two of the TCs were granted on August 13 and 14 each, 13 were granted on August 16. The reasons mentioned for granting the TCs include parental request, enrollment in other schools and others.
The school authorities said that the incident has been brought to the attention of the Higher Secondary Directorate and the affected students should not worry.
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