Bihar BSSC chairman Sudhir Kumar has been arrested by SIT team investigating the leakage of question papers in the last BSSC examination. He was taken into custody at his parental home in Hazaribagh and brought to Patna for questioning.

It is alleged that he leaked the question papers to members of his family who had appeared for the test.

Five other people including his younger brother, Professor Awadhesh Kumar, Head, Department of Geography, Patna University and his wife Manju Kumari, BSSC IT manager, Niti Ranjan Pratap Singh and setter Sajjad Ahmad have also been arrested.