Vol. I · № 01
An independent dossier
The Vendor · Evidence on file ·
Compiled May 2026
Hyderabad · Delhi
Subject: Coempt Edu Teck Pvt Ltd CIN U72200TG2000PTC034224 Class — Investigative
For the Record· Not Privileged ·
A due-diligence record  /  CBSE Class 12 OSM  /  2026

The firm that bungled Telangana never went away.
It just changed its name.

A single Hyderabad company has run, under three different names, the digital evaluation of high-stakes board examinations for more than a decade. Its history includes a mass miscount that preceded ~20 student suicides, repeated allegations of two-bidder tenders, a blacklist complaint from a major university, and — most recently — five textbook-level security vulnerabilities in the portal now marking three million CBSE Class 12 answer sheets.

Filed under Vendor Due-Diligence Compiled May 2026 Source: open record & corporate filings Subject: Coempt Edu Teck Pvt Ltd
§ I  ·  Synopsis

One company. Three names. Eleven years of failure.

The vendor behind cbse.onmark.co.in — the CBSE Class 12 On-Screen Marking portal — is Coempt Edu Teck Private Limited, headquartered in Hyderabad. The company is not new and the name is not original. It is the third public-facing identity of a single corporate entity incorporated on 11 April 2000 as Globarena Iteknowledge, later renamed Globarena Technologies, and renamed again to Coempt. The CIN has been constant. The founder-CEO has been constant. The failures have been constant.

The same entity, under its Globarena name, was at the centre of the Telangana Intermediate 2019 results fiasco in which approximately 20 to 25 students died by suicide after a mass miscount affected over three lakh candidates.[3][4][5] Before that, in 2014–2018, it was the subject of an enquiry by the AP Council of Higher Education and a police complaint filed by JNTU-Kakinada.[6][7]

In November 2023 it re-emerged at JNTU-Hyderabad — now as Coempt — as one of only two shortlisted bidders, alongside its long-standing consortium partner Magnetic Infotech.[2] In December 2025, the NSUI alleged at Nagpur University that the company had been "blacklisted in various universities" under its prior identity and that the contract had been awarded through an irregular tender.[1]

Less than five months later, the CBSE Class 12 2026 results — the first full-scale deployment of Coempt's OnMark at central-board scale — produced a 3.19-point drop in the overall pass percentage, 68,018 answer books rescanned for poor image quality, 13,583 books pulled for manual rechecking, and a re-evaluation portal that broke on the day it opened.[8][9][10]

Then, on 22 May 2026, an independent researcher published five critical vulnerabilities in the same portal — a hardcoded master password in a JavaScript bundle, server-returned OTPs verified in the browser, missing route guards, a password-change endpoint that did not verify the old password, and systemic IDOR — chained, sufficient for complete examiner-account takeover and mark tampering.[42]

§ II  ·  Identity

The three-name timeline.

One CIN, three brands. The Globarena → Coempt rebrand coincides with the 2019 Telangana fiasco — allowing the company to bid into post-2019 tenders without the older name surfacing in initial keyword screens.

2000 — c.2005

Globarena Iteknowledge Pvt Ltd

Soft-skills · NASSCOM NAC

Founded 11 April 2000 in Hyderabad. Trained students for the NAC certification; no examination-conduct experience on the record. The Hans India, in 2015, would later note: "the GTPL is a soft-skill training institute and not a software company."

c.2005 — c.2019

Globarena Technologies Pvt Ltd

NAC testing · Exam automation

Pivots into examination automation. Wins JNTU-Kakinada in 2014 — and is the subject of an AP Council enquiry and a JNTU-K police complaint by 2018. In April 2019, the Telangana Intermediate results catastrophe.

c.2019 — present

Coempt Edu Teck Pvt Ltd

OnMark · OneX · AI Proctoring

Rebrand follows the Telangana fiasco. Wins JNTU-H (2023, two-bidder), Karnatak University Dharwad MoU (2023), RTMNU Nagpur (2025, contested), and CBSE Class 12 OSM (2026).

The board, post-rebrand.

Three directors were appointed on a single day — 19 September 2022 — between the Bangalore University evaluation-scam exposure (Jan 2021) and the JNTU-H tender (Nov 2023). Among them: Prof. S. Sadagopan, founding Director of IIIT-Bangalore (1999–2021), previously at IIT Kanpur and IIM Bangalore, Fulbright Fellow, Purdue PhD.[20][21] The appointment looks post-hoc: it lends academic-establishment credibility to a company carrying baggage from a previous identity.

EducationWorld's 2020 interview with the founder-CEO described the company as "part of the Manipal Group"[24] — the Ranjan Pai conglomerate behind MAHE. The exact legal-structural nature of that relationship (equity, related-party, group-company, or alumni-network) is not established from public filings and remains an open question.

§ III  ·  Track Record

A chronology.

Five recurring engagements over eleven years. Each one a public failure or a contested award. Each one followed by another contract.

2014 — 2018JNTU-Kakinada

"No experience in conducting examinations."

JNTU-K awards Globarena the "Examination Automation Work" contract covering B.Tech, MCA, MBA, Pharmacy and M.Tech evaluation for eight districts of AP. The Hans India reports the firm is "a soft-skill training institute and not a software company." An AP Council of Higher Education enquiry headed by Prof L. Venugopal Reddy finds "some lapses." In December 2018, JNTU-K files a police complaint — for not delivering content as per agreement.[6][7]

April 2019Telangana Intermediate
≈ 20 student deaths

The catastrophe.

Globarena signs a three-year contract with TSBIE in January 2018. The software publishes the April 2019 intermediate results. ~9.74 lakh students sit the exam; 3.28 lakh are declared failed. An estimated 3.5 lakh face mark discrepancies. Documented case: student G Navya is awarded 0 in Telugu; on re-evaluation, the score is revised to 99. Between 20 and 25 students die by suicide in the two weeks following.[3][4][5][32]

AICC spokesperson Sravan Dasoju alleges Globarena "did not fulfil certain criteria of the tender." Per The Hindu, the agreement was not signed at the time of results. The CEO's same-week response, to The News Minute: "These kinds of errors happen every year, but this year it got politicised."[3]

Nov 2023JNTU-Hyderabad

The two-horse tender.

Deccan Chronicle, 25 November 2023: "Globarena Technologies, which bungled the results for the Intermediate exam of 2019, resulting in about 20 students dying by suicide, and its alleged partner-in-crime Magnetic Infotech were the only ones shortlisted… Globarena has changed its name to Coempt Edu Teck Private Limited." The two nominally separate bidders are the same consortium that executed the JNTU-K work.[2]

Dec 2025RTMNU Nagpur

The blacklist complaint.

NSUI files a formal complaint with the VC of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University: a three-year exam-management contract has been awarded to Coempt despite the company (in its prior Globarena identity) being "blacklisted by various universities." NSUI alleges experience certificates were not verified, tender rules were "abnormally changed" mid-process, and eligible competitors dropped out. The VC promises a "high-level committee" inquiry. No findings have been published.[1]

May 2026CBSE Class 12 OSM
Live — current incident

The largest deployment yet.

CBSE rolls out On-Screen Marking for Class 12 in 2026 via cbse.onmark.co.in. The Delhi Government School Teachers' Association warns in February that "the majority of teachers have not been provided with structured and certified training." CBSE proceeds anyway. Results, declared 13 May 2026, show an overall pass percentage drop from 88.39% to 85.20% — a 3.19-point fall.[9][10]

On 19 May, the re-evaluation portal breaks at opening: login failures, failed payments, inability to submit applications. The Controller of Examinations Sanyam Bhardwaj advises affected students: "I asked them to restart the computer."[8]

“
These kinds of errors happen every year, but this year it got politicised.
— V S N Raju, Founder & CEO  ·  The News Minute, 30 April 2019
§ IV  ·  The Numbers

What CBSE 2026 produced.

−3.19pts
Drop in Class 12 pass percentage. 88.39% → 85.20%
68,018
Answer books rescanned for poor image quality
13,583
Books pulled for manual rechecking
−85%
Re-evaluation fee cut by CBSE — damage control after backlash

The fee for a photocopy of the answer sheet was slashed ₹700 → ₹100; verification ₹500 → ₹100; re-evaluation ₹100 → ₹25 per question (refundable if marks increase). The re-evaluation portal itself broke when it opened on 19 May 2026.[8][10]

§ V  ·  The Audit

Five vulnerabilities. One account-takeover chain.

On 22 May 2026, security researcher Nisarga Adhikary published a disclosure of five critical vulnerabilities in the CBSE OSM portal — first found on 25 February 2026, two days after CBSE's public launch announcement. The findings were reported to CERT-In, which returned a boilerplate acknowledgement and did not engage further.

The vulnerabilities directly contradict Coempt's ISO 27001:2013 certification claim. They are not subtle bugs — every one of them is catalogued in the OWASP Top 10. In the researcher's words: "The hardest part was reading a JavaScript file and editing a couple of values in DevTools."[42]

The portal handles answer scripts from a CBSE network of over 28,000 schools and millions of Class 12 students.

  1. Hardcoded master password embedded in the client-side JavaScript bundle. Login form auto-populates the OTP and bypasses authentication.
  2. OTP returned by the server and compared client-side. Visible in the network tab.
  3. No route guards. Zero canActivate guards in the Angular app. Seeding localStorage with a fake JWT allows full access to /dashboard, /evalscriptsview, /evaluatordetails, /verificationdashboard.
  4. Password-change endpoint accepts {ValuatorID, pin_NewPassword} — never verifies the old password.
  5. Systemic IDOR. Every API trusts ValuatorID from sessionStorage. Edit one value; act as any user.
CHAIN → Combine #4 + #5: reset any examiner's password without credentials, log in, view scanned scripts, edit marks. CBSE is affiliated with 28,000+ schools.
§ VI  ·  The Pattern

Six elements that repeat.

01 / Tender

Sole-source or two-horse bids.

JNTU-H 2023: only Coempt + Magnetic Infotech shortlisted. RTMNU 2025: tender rules "abnormally changed" mid-process; eligible bidders dropped out.

02 / Consortium

The same partner, recast.

Magnetic Infotech has been the OMR-processing arm of multiple Globarena/Coempt deployments for over a decade — but routinely bids as a separate entity to satisfy multi-bidder rules.

03 / Rebrand

A new name after each disaster.

Globarena Iteknowledge → Globarena Technologies → Coempt Edu Teck. CIN constant. Founder constant. Each rebrand follows operational baggage.

04 / Failure mode

The same engineering, recurring.

Poor scanning quality, untrained downstream evaluators, missing or incorrect digitised marks, broken result-dispute portals — Telangana 2019 and CBSE 2026 in nearly identical form.

05 / PR

Paid-PR-style coverage.

Outlook, Republic World, Free Press Journal, Oneindia, AsiaOne — celebrating "25 years of innovation" — running in parallel with active controversies at RTMNU and CBSE.

06 / Stack

Engineering quality, end-to-end.

The technical implementation shows introductory-level security failures inconsistent with the ISO 27001 claim. CERT-In's non-response left them in production for months.

§ VII  ·  Open Threads

What still needs to be pulled.

CBSE OSM tender document. The award notice on the Central Public Procurement Portal. An RTI to CBSE's IT division at Dwarka would surface contract value, scope, signing date, and scoring sheet.

RTMNU inquiry committee. The VC's promised inquiry, if conducted and published, would surface specific allegations of mid-process tender rule changes.

Bangalore University, 2018–2020. The 804-student OMR tampering scam was attributed in coverage to "the private firm hired to scan OMR scripts" without naming. Worth confirming via FIR copies and BU syndicate minutes.

MCA financial statements. Audited financials for FY2023–FY2025 (P&L, balance sheet, MGT-7 related-party disclosure) would clarify any equity link to the Manipal Group and the source of ₹35 Cr in "Others" charges.

Telangana High Court status. Whether any litigation, criminal complaint or formal blacklisting order from the 2019 fiasco is still pending against Globarena/Coempt.

Magnetic Infotech corporate structure. Common directors, common addresses, common bank charges, related-party transactions.

CERT-In follow-up. The incident reference assigned to the February 2026 disclosure should be pulled via RTI. What advisory was issued? What remediation timeline was agreed? Which of the five vulnerabilities has actually been patched?

§ VIII  ·  References

Citations on file.

[1] Lokmat (Marathi), "How did Nagpur University assign exam work to the blacklisted company 'Coempt Edu'?", 24 Dec 2025. lokmat.com
[2] Deccan Chronicle, "JTNU-H shortlists 'infamous' firms for awarding marks", 25 Nov 2023. deccanchronicle.com
[3] The News Minute, "'It happens every year': Tech firm behind Telangana intermediate fiasco defensive", 30 Apr 2019. thenewsminute.com
[4] The Week, "Errors in intermediate results: Telangana witnesses largest unrest against KCR", 27 Apr 2019. theweek.in
[5] Gulf News, "Telangana student suicide toll rises to 20", Apr 2019. gulfnews.com
[6] The Hans India, "JNTU-K fails in test of evaluation", 5 May 2015. thehansindia.com
[7] NewsClick, "Students' Suicide in Telangana", 25 Apr 2019. newsclick.in
[8] Deccan Herald, "'Portal functioning properly': CBSE denies technical glitches on re-evaluation window", 19 May 2026. deccanherald.com
[9] Careers360, "CBSE Class 12: Delhi Government school teachers ask board to put on-screen marking on hold", 27 Feb 2026. careers360.com
[10] Aakash Educational Services, "CBSE Class 12 Revaluation 2026 Portal Open: Fees Reduced by 85%", May 2026. aakash.ac.in
[11] The Company Check, "Coempt Edu Teck Private Limited — 2026 Insights", Apr 2026. thecompanycheck.com
[20] Open Source India, "Prof Sowmya Narayanan Sadagopan — Speaker Profile". opensourceindia.in
[21] Wikipedia, "IIIT Bangalore". en.wikipedia.org
[24] EducationWorld, "Interview: VSN Raju, CEO, Coempt EduTeck Pvt Ltd", 21 May 2020. educationworld.in
[32] The News Minute, "How the Telangana Intermediate results fiasco exposed a weakened junior college system", 29 Apr 2019. thenewsminute.com
[33] The Indian Wire, "Nearly 16 students suicide after failure in Telangana intermediate exams 2019", 23 Apr 2019. theindianwire.com
[40] Deccan Herald, "Evaluation scam unearthed at Bangalore University", Jan 2021. deccanherald.com
[42] Nisarga Adhikary (ni5arga), "Exposing Critical Vulnerabilities in CBSE's On-Screen Marking Portal: From Authentication Bypass to Full Account Takeover", 22 May 2026. ni5arga.com

Caveats & methodology. All claims above are sourced to publicly available news reporting and corporate filing aggregators. The Globarena → Coempt name change is documented in at least three independent sources (Deccan Chronicle, Lokmat, The Company Check / MCA aggregators); the CIN U72200TG2000PTC034224 is constant across name changes. The Manipal Group affiliation rests primarily on EducationWorld's 2020 interview and the AsiaOne profile; the exact structural nature of that relationship is not established from public filings. The Bangalore University 2020 evaluation scam is referenced as part of the sector pattern; the firm involved is not publicly named and should not be attributed to Coempt/Globarena without further evidence. The 2019 Telangana student suicide figure is reported variously as 16, 19, 20, and 25 across outlets and dates; the most-cited retrospective figure is ~20.