Astonishing footage has emerged of parents using ropes to scale multiple stories of a large school building in India - to help their children cheat in exams.
Dozens of relatives and friends of pupils at Vidya Niketan School, in the country's eastern state of Bihar, can be seen clambering up the side of the building to access classrooms up to four stories high.
They appear to be handing notes to teenagers sitting the country's equivalent of GCSE exams, as they balance precariously on ledges above the windows.
Education authorities reportedly expelled more than 600 students as a result and have since tightened security at the school.
Similar scenes have also been witnessed in other parts of the state.
One parent, Dara Singh Chauhan, blamed inadequate teaching for driving parents to such risky measures.
He told Indian news outlet NDTV: "These government teachers don't teach anything in schools.
"Most of the times they are absent. That's why we have to resort to such things to help our children."
Bihar state education minister PK Shahi said: "It is a big challenge to stop 100 per cent unfair means in the examination.
"I also want to ask people if it is not the responsibility of society as well to stop it?"
