Police have arrested two teachers on suspicion of leaking question papers of the ongoing School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examinations.

Police arrested teachers Keshav Shrestha and Prakash Man Shrestha of Ganesh Secondary School of Bhaktapur, after a set of questions seized from them matched exactly with the set of original questions that appeared in today’s test of Nepali paper.

The alleged leakage was revealed after the cadres of the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) arrested Shrestha duo for trying to sell the leaked papers at Rs 10,000 each and handed them over to the police along with the handwritten set of the question paper.

According to YCL members, the duo have admitted that they were involved in the question leakage racket with the help of high-ranking official of the Office of the Controller of Examination (OCE).

Meanwhile, the board of SLC examination has called an emergency meeting to take stock of the alleged leakage of questions.

Altogether 368,678 students – 292,287 in regular and 76,391 in exempted groups are attending the exams. According to the OCE, 33,225 personnel have been mobilised for the examination with 11,860 security personnel, 3,000 evaluators and monitors, 15,467 inspectors, 2,371 assistant superintendents and 1,186 superintendents. There are 1186 exam centres across the country.

The examination of the first day was held smoothly on Wednesday.