New Delhi: Continuing the probe into the leakage of CBSE XII exam question paper, the team of crime branch on Saturday arrested three persons from Himachal Pradesh for their alleged role in leaking the Economics question paper, three days before the exams.
The arrested are exam centre superintendent and commerce lecturer Rakesh Kumar, clerk Amit Kumar, and peon Ashok — all work in a private school in Una. The three were deployed on examination duty at another school in the same district. They were brought to New Delhi after being questioned, an officer said.
According to Alok Kumar, joint commissioner of police, the crime branch team has arrested three masterminds of leakage of the paper. The handwritten paper was in circulation two days before the examination, i.e. on March 26. Seeing the sensitivity of the investigation, an SIT was constituted comprising joint CP, DCPs, ACPs and their teams.
A team led by Dr Ram Gopal Naik, DCP, under close supervision of Alok Kumar, joint CP, was put on trail of the paper leakage. Multiple teams were constituted to do technical analysis and also develop field intelligence.
Police sources said a team of four officers of Delhi police visited the private school in Una and questioned the principal for about two hours on Friday.
The crime branch began investigating the leak after a case was registered in the matter on March 27.
