India, Feb. 14 -- The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), Navi Mumbai, on Thursday arrested a senior official of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education for allegedly taking a bribe to grant exam concessions to a Class 10 student with a learning disability.

The accused, Sudam Lotan Chavan, 57, assistant superintendent and branch officer at the board's Mumbai divisional office in Vashi, was caught red-handed accepting Rs.8,000.

According to ACB officials, Chavan had initially demanded Rs.10,000 from a private tutor to arrange a scribe for the February 2026 SSC examination and to facilitate a subject change for the student.

The tutor, who the student's mother had authorised to complete the formalities, was first...