Jalaj boarded a train from Vidisha at 1 pm on May 26 with his friend and his father. They were travelling 60 kilometres to the CBSE Regional Office in Bhopal. He had no other choice.
When his Class 12 results came out on May 13, he was dissatisfied with his score. He applied for a scanned copy of his evaluated answer sheet through CBSE’s reevaluation process. The portal opened on May 19, and after attempting to register several times, he finally succeeded at 1 am on May 21. But when the copy arrived on May 24, it wasn’t his. The front page had his name, but the answers inside belonged to someone else.