After all the rows of TV fakery recently it's good to see some good old television investigative journalism have a real effect – and on the accountancy profession to boot.

On Sunday night the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India cancelled one of its exams following a television channel's expose of the leak of a question paper, The Hindu reports.

Nearly 82,000 students had been due to sit the examination across 209 centres in India and also in Kathmandu and Dubai.

India TV channel said it had procured the question paper from two middlemen Satish Singh and Sudesh Kumar for Rs 60,000 (£1,075).

The ICAI says there will be an investigation into the leak and that the police will go into the matter.