Ex-employee of SCDL in Pune booked for allegedly leaking details of 178 students for financial gains

Two people, including a former employee of city-based Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning (SCDL), have been booked for allegedly leaking details of 178 students for financial gains.

The two persons have been identified as Sandeep Hengale and Sumar Kumar. While Hengale was in the examination department of the institute, Kumar is a former student, according to the police.

“He was working in our examination department. He shared the contact details of the students. That was our initial complaint. We formed a committee and corrected the situation and informed the particular students as well. There were no financial transactions, fortunately. He accepted his guilt and tendered his resignation,” said Swati Mujumdar, director, Symbiosis Open Education Society.