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A pornographic video was played on a classroom LED screen at a public school in Madhya Pradesh, India, with approximately 13 minor students present and no teacher in the room; one student recorded the incident, which went viral on social media. Local education officials formed a three-member fact-finding committee, including two school principals, to investigate how the video came to be played and identify those responsible. The school principal reportedly claimed the incident was connected to an attempted blackmail scheme against him, though this claim has not been independently verified. This is a school-technology governance failure distinct from individual-device cases, since it involves shared classroom infrastructure rather than a personal or take-home device.