Three from Himachal school held for CBSE paper leak

The arrested include a centre superintendent, a clerk and a peon: Image | IANS

New Delhi: The Delhi Police here arrested three staff members of a private school in Himachal Pradesh in connection with the leak of CBSE's class XII Economics paper, police said.

The arrested staffers are employees of DAV School in Himachal Pradesh's Una district.

Rakesh, a centre superintendent, Amit, a clerk and Ashok, who worked as a peon at the private school, were brought to the national capital from Una and after questioning, were arrested by the Crime Branch, a senior Delhi Police officer said.

A hand written copy of the Economics paper was leaked through WhatsApp, a day before the examination on March 26.

On March 30, the CBSE announced that it would re-conduct the class XII Economics exam throughout the country on April 25.

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