Agrani Bank will cancel the preliminary examination which was held in the morning on Friday for the appointment of senior officers at the state-owned bank over the allegation of leakage of question papers.

Earlier, the authorities concerned scrapped the exam which was held in the afternoon on the same day in the wake of the same allegation.

Bankers’ Selection Committee of Bangladesh Bank issued a circular for appointing senior officers of Agrani Bank while the banking and insurance department of Dhaka University (DU) was in charge of conducting the exams.