Chandigarh, June 22: The Haryana School Education Board has taken action against 1,976 students who indulged in "unfair" means during the annual middle examination-2003, the board secretary Rakesh Gupta said today. After personal hearings, the six committees constituted to deal with such cases disposed off 700 such cases daily, Gupta said. He said papers of 99 students caught indulging in allegedly unfair methods were cancelled. As many as 1594 students found "copying" were disqualified for a year, 262 were disqualified for two years and ten were disqualified for three years. As many as 11 students were disqualified for a year, he said adding it was for the first time that such a large number of defaulters had been punished. Bureau Report