Jammu and Kashmir Police's Crime Branch has concluded there were some irregularities in the anwser sheets of Education Minister Peerzada Mohammed Sayeed's foster son's Class 10 exam which he passed after it found two hand writings on them.

The Crime Branch which probed the answer-paper scandal in its report submitted to the Government on Wednesday also identified three officials involved in this.

The report said there were two hand writings on three answer sheets of the Class 10 exam taken by the student, official sources said here. Sayeed is a Congress nominee in the state cabinet.

The sources said the three identified officials belonged to the examination division of the J and K Board of Secondary Education.

Imam Sauban, Peerzada Sayeed's son, had passed his Class 10 exam in 2009 allegedly with the help from Board of School Education officials.

As the controversy broke out, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah announced an inquiry by the Crime Branch which carried out a detailed questioning of the Board officials.

The answer sheets of the candidate were sent to General Examiner of Questioned Documents who opined that the three answer sheets had two different handwritings, the sources said.

After the probe was announced, Sayeed had welcomed the decision and he said the issue has been raked up to malign his image.

Sayeed had to resign earlier also because of allegations of corruption while he was in Ghulam Nabi Azad's government.

He had quit in January 2008 after being accused of demanding and accepting illegal gratification of Rs 40,000 from an independent MLA Shoaib Lone.