Pune, July 25 -- The Maharashtra Police on Saturday arrested the prime accused in the Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) paper leak case from Patna, Bihar, and brought him to Maharashtra for further investigation, officials said.

The main accused, identified as Bijendra Kumar Baleshwar Shah, along with his associate Indrajeet Singh alias Piku, was brought to Bhiwandi after being arrested by the Bhiwandi Police in Patna. Both accused were taken to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone-2 office in Bhiwandi, where they are being interrogated as part of the ongoing investigation.

According to the police, Bijendra Kumar had been absconding for nearly a month before his arrest. With these latest arrests, the total number of acc...