Penalty

After a brief moment of silence, LY explained his conflicting answer.

"In a material sense, we can do nothing and there is actually no point of doing anything. To begin with, there is no victim. Imagine, if the incident at hand were genuine and X and Y did get hold of some confidential information of the examination, the right of other candidates are jeopardized and the two students should be penalized. But this is certainly not the case now. What actually happened is, two naive student made a copy on some tables and text - they believe the information is  related to the case recruited for their examination, but, in reality, those were merely homework of our good old Dr. W. In fact, when I told Dr. W this little story, he made it that he would forgive X and Y for copying his personal files."

"How about the student who made the complaint in person?" I asked.

"Come on, whoever complaints does not appear in the equation: They are not victims - and we are not in a criminal court," my friend went on, "In the civil court, an unaffected bystander has no right to raise a case - and we don't need superheros of justice."

"Quite right. In that case, what supranatural penalty did you give to X and Y?"

"Alas, nothing. I just made it clear in front of their groupmates and class representatives that their suspicious behaviour had stirred up a lot of concerns and rumours in their class, and they should apologize to their whole class for their unprofessional behaviour." LY said with a smile, "I have also told the two of them - as well as their class representatives - that since the rumor spread via some unofficial channel, they should use the same method to spread when I told them so as to clear up the matter."

I nodded in agreement. This is real crisis management.