In a strange incident at a private college in Karnataka,students were made to wear cardboard boxes during an exam to allegedly stopthem from cheating. The college is now facing a backlash after photos of theincident went viral on social media.

The incident took place at Bhagat Pre-University College ofHaveri district and came to light after a member of the college management,Sateesh Herur posted to his Facebook account of the students wearing cardboardboxes. The photos were taken on Wednesday and posted on the same day.

The post of Herur said, "It's our college midterm exam today.That is Bhagat PU College, Haveri."

According to reports, many students allegedly cheated duringlast year's exams even after repeated warnings. In order to stop cheating, themanagement introduced the billion-dollar idea.

The state government immediately issued a notice to the collegeand sought an explanation about why the students were made to wear cardboardboxes — the move was confirmed by Deputy Director of Public InstructionDepartment, SS Piraje.

"We have clearly told the management to give a writtenexplanation and if this kind of incident is repeated in the future, thedepartment will cancel the license of the school," Piraje said.