Nepal’s exam leak is about much more than one WhatsApp group

Beyond the financial and emotional toll, the WhatsApp leak proves Nepal’s history of exam compromises is far from over.

The integrity of higher education in Nepal faced a digital betrayal on Friday. Within five minutes of the commencement of the Tribhuvan University’s Master of Business Studies (MBS) first-semester examination for ‘Organisational Behaviour’, the question paper was circulating on a WhatsApp group. A teacher known online as ‘Sulav Sir’, later identified as Sandip Singh, shared the paper and subsequently provided a 16-page handwritten solution while the test was still underway. This brazen act of academic fraud allowed at least 35 active members in a group of over 1,000 to discuss answers in real-time.