Five judges were caught cheating at a postgraduate Master of Law examination in the state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. <br /><br />Five judges and two other exam candidates were caught when a special team of examination supervisors made a surprise visit to the exam venue at the Arts and Science College at Kakatiya University. <br /><br />The candidates were caught jotting down answers from law books hidden under their answer sheets, and from slips and pages torn from textbooks. <br /><br />[Professor Ramesh, Exam Supervisor]: (Telugu, male) <br />“When our team was performing the inspection, we caught seven candidates acting dishonestly in the examination.” <br /><br />It’s believed the Andhra Pradesh High Court acted swiftly on Thursday in suspending the disgraced judges. It has also asked the university to initiate actions against the judges and to submit a comprehensive report on the entire incident. <br /><br />The court went further by also asking the state government to initiate disciplinary action against all the judges as they have brought disrepute to the law profession.
