Bihar toppers scam: 'Topper' Ruby Rai to be treated as minor

A district court here today accepted that the controversial Humanities 'topper' Rubby Rai in the Bihar Intermediate Examination, who has been arrested in connection with an examination cheating racket, is a minor.

Special Vigilance court judge Raghvendra Kumar Singh accepted that the girl is a minor on the basis of her matriculation certificate which mentioned her date of birth as November 15, 1998, paving the way for her shifting from Beur model jail to a remand home.

She was arrested by Special Investigation Team (SIT) as she emerged from a re-test of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on June 25 and sent to Beur jail. But, as per her matriculation certificate she is 17 years, 3 months and nine days old and cannot be sent to jail.

 Former member of the Juvenile Justice Board K D Mishra, who appeared in the court in favour of the girl, presented her matriculation certificate to claim that she is a minor.

The lawyer of the Bihar School Examination Board also did not oppose the matriculation certificate of the girl in the court today.

With the court accepting her as a minor, it meant that she would be shifted to a remand home from Beur model jail of Patna.

The girl, from the controversial Bishun Roy college of Vaishali district, was taken into custody by Special Investigation Team (SIT) on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by a Patna district court against her and three other rank-holders in the examination racket case.