lucknow the uttar pradesh secondary education board upse on tuesday cancelled the class x science paper and class xii physics paper both first and second in maharajganj district and chandauli district following reports of a paper leak while the science paper was scheduled on tuesday class xii physics first paper was held on february 15 and the second was held on february 17 the board will soon provide the new dates for these examinationswe are still investigating the paper leak in maharajganj if the question paper is leaked on social media we will cancel the examinations in related districts for now the science examination is cancelled in maharajganj and both the physics papers have been cancelled in chandauli said upseb secretary neena srivastavaon tuesday class x science paper scheduled for the morning shift was leaked from devlali kanya inter college in maharajganj police registered a case against the centre manager raj bahadur singh and three invigilators ram krishna sahni dharamraj gautam and awdesh prajapati no arrests have been made so far according to sho kotwali ramdawan maurya information regarding paper leak came from a shopkeeper who sold photocopies of the paper the shopkeeper is yet to be identified district inspector of schools dios maharajganj ashok kumar singh said when i reached the centre i found the question paper bundle was unsealed but it was signed by the centre manager on interrogation i was told that it was by mistake that he signed the science bundle meanwhile in chandauli district the cancellation came after police on tuesday busted a gang involved in leaking the physics question papers three persons including school manager a teacher and coaching operator in chandauli involved in the racket were arrested the accused were booked under various sections of ipc and prevention of unfair means actduring the investigation police found that one jitendra kumar a teacher of kerala public school saiyyadraja ruhool amin alias munna manager of maulana azad inter college balua and coaching operator ranjan singh of bachhauli had leaked the question papers on social media said chandauli sp santosh kumar singhpolice recovered the photocopy of handwritten question papers of class xii physics first and second paper rs 8200 in cash and three mobile phones used by them to leak the paper all three have been booked under sections 420 cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property 467 forgery of valuable security will 468 forgery for purpose of cheating and 471 using as genuine a forged document or electronic record of ipc and 410 of up public examinations prevention of unfair means act 1998 and sent to jailon february 17 four persons were found solving physics second paper at the residence of the principal of an inter college in balua chandauli police had arrested the principal and had recovered over rs 1550 lakh in cash answer sheets solved question paper and a rifle