India, July 26 -- After month-long searches across several northern states, Bijender Gupta, the alleged mastermind behind the Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test-2026 (TET-2026) paper leak, was finally arrested late on Friday.

Gupta was arrested in Samastipur in Bihar and brought to Bhiwandi on Saturday. He was produced before a local court, which remanded him to police custody until July 30. An associate of Gupta, Indrajeet Vijay Singh, was arrested along with him.

Saturday's arrests take the total number of individuals arrested in the case to 14, including Gupta's wife, Suman Gupta. Sonu Kumar, a printing press employee suspected of leaking the TET papers from the Agra printing press, is absconding.

Gupta is the suspected mastermind...