Guwahati, February 21 (PTI): A retired High Court judge will conduct an inquiry into the alleged leak of question papers in two subjects during the ongoing class X Assam board examination. State Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said, “We will conduct a probe into the entire matter by a former High Court Judge once the examinations are over.” He also said he would request Chief Minister to relieve him from the education portfolio. Question papers of social studies and modern indian languages (Assamese) subjects, examinations for which are due on February 24 and March 7 respectively, were wrongly distributed among students in a couple of examination centres yesterday, in place of mathematics. The Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA)today announced that new question papers would be set for the social studies and MIL (Assamese) examinations. SEBA also rescheduled the social studies examination to March 11 next.
