Kozhikode: A peon from an unaided school has been arrested in connection with the Christmas exam question paper leak. The accused, Abdul Nasser, a native of Malappuram, leaked the paper and handed it over to Fahad, a teacher at MS Solutions. Fahad then circulated the questions through a YouTube channel. He had previously been arrested by the Crime Branch in connection with the same case.

The Education Department had discovered that over the last three quarterly exams, MS Solutions had leaked question papers for public school exams and shared them through a YouTube channel, which was launched in 2017. The viewership of the channel saw a remarkable increase after it predicted the questions for the 2023 Christmas exam. Viewership numbers rose further during the SSLC exam in March 2024 and the Onam and Christmas exams.

During the last Onam exam, it was revealed that students in the Koduvalli area, where the YouTube channel was based, had widely copied answers. Students presented answers that matched the questions they had received from the YouTube channel. Following a complaint, the Koduvalli AEO conducted an investigation, and the findings were forwarded to the Director of General Education through the Thamarssery DEO.