Question paper leak: Students won’t be charged

Dubai Public Prosecution said on Sunday it would not initiate legal action against a group of students accused of leaking the biology question paper.

Counselor Mohammed Ali Bu Abdullah, chairman of Family and Juveniles Prosecution, announced that Attorney General Essam Al Humaidan had issued an order to that effect.

He said investigations of the six students and a brother of one of the suspects had found that an unknown person, who had not yet been identified, had leaked the biology question paper.

He said students had received answers to the exam questions through multimedia, including the BlackBerry Messenger, on the morning of the test, but none of them was sure that those answers were of the said question paper until they sat for the test.

The Public Prosecution concluded that no evidence of criminal intent to disclose secrets had been established against those interrogated and the Public Prosecutor saw no logic

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