Cuttack, April 4: Crime branch sleuths today nabbed two prime accused for their alleged role in the question paper leak incident that had led to cancellation of the constable recruitment test on March 15.

The two accused have been identified as Satyanarayan Das and Shankar Sethi.

Satyanarayan is posted as an assistant sub-inspector (wireless), while Shankar works as a stenographer in the office of the chairman of the State Selection Board of Odisha police.

The rescheduled constable recruitment test will be held in various parts of the state tomorrow.

"The duo are the original source from where the questions were leaked. They had sold the question paper at a cost ranging from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.10 lakh, and they had leaked the paper on March 11, almost four days prior to the examination," said additional director-general of police (crime) B.K. Sharma.

A senior CID official said both the persons had a direct access to the question papers and subsequently leaked and sold those to various people for money. Satyanarayan, who was one of the 15 persons appointed inside the hall, was assigned the responsibility for making photocopies and packaging the confidential material. Shankar, on the other hand, was also involved in preparation of a few questions, which were typed in Odia.

Later, with the help of Satyanarayan, Shankar had gained access to other questions and subsequently passed those to the other accused.

On March 24, the crime branch had arrested six persons, including Kishore Mohanty, secretary of the Odisha Havildar and Sepoys Mahasanga, and three other police personnel, in connection with the question paper leak scam. All the four persons had distributed the questions to various people in lieu of money a day before the constable recruitment test scheduled to be held on March 14.

"We have also identified a few other persons for their involvement in the entire scam, and they would also be arrested in a couple of days," Sharma said.

Earlier, the state government had ordered for a crime branch probe following the question paper leak that had led to the cancellation of the written test for constable recruitment.

As many as 19,039 examinees were shortlisted for the written test for 1,370 constable posts after the physical fitness test on February 15.