Court Accepts Class 12 ‘Topper’ As Minor in Bihar’s Cheating Case

Ruby Rai has been accepted by the court as a minor, allowing her to shift from jail to remand home.

• A district court today accepted that the controversial Humanities ‘topper’ in the Bihar Intermediate Examination, who has been arrested in connection with an investigation into 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 15 November, 1998, paving the way for her shifting from Beur model jail to a remand home.
  

• The girl along with the Science stream topper had come into limelight after they gave ridiculous answers to questions on their subjects in a video which went viral, prompting an inquiry.