New Delhi, India

The two bank officials, arrested along with a woman in connection with the Class 10 Mathematics paper leak, were nabbed on charges of criminal negligence, the police said on Thursday.

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The accused have been identified as Sheru Ram (35), a branch manager of the Union Bank of India, Om Prakash (58), head cashier of the bank and the 40-year-old woman, who had circulated hand-written question papers of Class 12 economics and Class 10 mathematics via WhatsApp.

Last week, the Crime Branch arrested three employees of DAV Centenary Public School in Una town of Himachal Pradesh, Rakesh Kumar, Amit Sharma and Ashok Kumar, in connection with the economics paper leak case.

Rakesh Kumar was also found to be involved in leaking the Mathematics paper.

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The economics paper was leaked on March 23 - three days before the exam date - in Una and was shared on social networking site WhatsApp by at least 40 groups.

Rakesh Kumar had been teaching economics at the DAV school for the last eight years. He was the centre superintendent of the Jawahar Navodaya Public School in Una, where the CBSE exams were being held.

Amit Sharma and Ashok Kumar worked at the DAV school as a clerk and a peon respectively.

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The economics paper leak was exposed after an envelope containing four images of a hand-written copy of the question paper was delivered to the CBSE Headquarters in Delhi on the evening March 26, the day of the exam.

On March 30, the Central Board of Secondary Education announced it would re-conduct the Class 12 economics exam throughout the country on April 25.