Twelve students in Chirirbandar upazila could not appear in the SSC examination that started across the country yesterday, after allegedly being deceived by their school headmaster.

Protesting the incident, the deprived students of SK Residential Model School and College besieged the educational institution in the morning and vandalised the office room and furniture.

On information, police went to the school and detained Headmaster Niranjan Roy and his associate Ajoy Roy, headmaster of Singanagar High School.

Victim students said each of them paid Tk 5,500 to Niranjan Roy in November last year for filling up their SSC candidature forms.

Niranjan also charged additional Tk 900 from each students as miscellaneous expenses and bus fare to go to Dinajpur Education Board, they alleged.

Despite frequent requests, the headmaster did not hand over their admit cards until Wednesday and told them to meet the teacher at his house the next morning, said Masud Rana.

When the students and their guardians went to the headmaster's house yesterday morning and asked him for the admit cards, Niranjan drove them away from there, another victim Labanya Roy said.

Niranjan admitted his involvement in the incident, said Haresul Islam, Chirirbandar Police Station Officer-in-Charge.