The professor demanded Rs 30,000 from students to change the subject, ACB said. (representative)
Thane:
The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested a senior official of the Government of Maharashtra’s Technical Education Directorate, a female professor and two others for taking bribes to gain admission to an architecture school in Thane district. to facilitate, officials said.
The ACB officials have also recovered Rs 3.15,000 in cash from those detained, which they collected from 11 students, including the complainant in this case, they said.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (Thane ACB) Ashwini Patil said in a release that the process of registering an offense against the four at the Mira Road Police Station under the Mira Bhayandar-Vasai Virar Police Station is underway.
The detainees were identified as Jitendra Ramdasji Nikhade (54) Deputy Director of Technical and Joint Director Divisional Officer at Bandra; Rupali Hitendra Gupte (50), professor at KL Tiwari College of Architecture at Mira Bhayandar; Santosh Rangrai Hubale, (45), College Office Principal and Shreya Santosh Bane (46), Senior Registrar.
The complainant’s daughter was educated at an architecture school, which was closed. To be admitted to KL Tiwari College and also to allow the change of subject, the director of the college demanded Rs 30,000, the ACB said.
Professor Gupte asked the complainant to hand over the money to the chief inspector of the office and when the complainant met Hubale, he demanded an amount of Rs 30,000 to be given to the joint director of technical education. Thereafter, the complainant approached the Thane unit of the ACB. Based on the complaint, the anti-transplant agency set a trap on the university’s office on Wednesday and caught Bane accepting Rs 15,000 from the complainant on behalf of the inspector and professor, it said.
During the investigation and raid, it was revealed that the accused had similarly demanded Rs 30,000 from 14 students, the ACB said.
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