Three more teachers have been remanded in connection with the UPSR leak. – The Malaysian Insider file pic, September 17, 2014.
Three teachers from Negri Sembilan have been remanded for four days for investigation under the Official Secrets Act (OSA) in connection with the leak of the UPSR examination papers.
This brings to eight the total number of people being held so far to assist police in the case.
Putrajaya magistrate Nur Dahlia Azmi gave the order today to remand the three suspects, aged between 24 and 36.
All three, one of them a woman, were unrepresented.
Yesterday, police detained a 34-year-old engineer in Kemaman, Terengganu.
On Monday, police obtained a four-day remand order against four men, including a Penang primary school headmaster.
The other suspects are two teachers from Penang and an insurance agent from Kuala Lumpur.
Their lawyer, Ester Tan Siew Choo, said the suspects were being investigated under Section 8 (1) of the rarely used OSA 1972 for possession of official secrets and communicating such information to others.
Kuala Lumpur Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Gan Kong Meng said 12 people had been questioned so far to facilitate investigations.
The Science papers 018, 028 and 038, scheduled last Thursday, were postponed following a leak the day before.
On Thursday, the UPSR English papers 014/1 and 014/2 were also found to have been leaked, causing public outrage.
Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Education Minister II Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh have issued public apologies over the leaks.
On Friday, Muhyiddin also ordered the immediate suspension of Examinations Syndicate director Dr Na'imah Ishak and her deputy (operations) Dr Wan Ilias Wan Salleh.
"The top officials have to take responsibility for this leak which has tarnished the image and reputation of the ministry," he had said.
The leaks have forced 473,175 pupils from 8,384 schools nationwide to resit their Science and English papers on September 30.
- TMI
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