Police have arrested an IAS officer from the Thane district of Maharashtra over alleged malpractice in the results of the statewide Teachers’ Eligibility Test (TET) held in 2020, an official said here on Saturday. .
“The bureaucrat, Sushil Khodwekar, has been arrested from Thane. He will appear in court today,” the Pune police officer said, bringing the number of people arrested in the case to 13, he said.
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City police had said on Friday that the figures of as many as 7,800 TET-2020 candidates would have been manipulated in exchange for money. Earlier, 12 individuals, including Tukaram Supe, commissioner (now suspended) of the Maharashtra State Council of Examinations (MSCE), were arrested in connection with the alleged manipulation of the TET results.
Pritesh Deshmukh, director of the GA Software company, which was responsible for administering the exam, and Abhishek Sawrikar, an adviser to the education department, are also among those arrested. More than Rs 4 crore in cash, gold ornaments and other documents related to the fixed deposits had been recovered in the case in the past, police said.
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