TET leak accused surrenders in court
Thane, July 29 -- A 35-year-old absconding accused in the Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) paper leak case surrendered before a Bhiwandi court on Monday and was subsequently arrested by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case, police said.
Sonu Kumar Diwakar was allegedly a key link in the racket who obtained the TET-2026 examination paper from an Agra-based printing press and supplied it to the alleged mastermind, Bijender Gupta.
With Diwakar's arrest, the total number of accused in the case has reached 15. The 35-year-old was produced in court on Tuesday and remanded to police custody till August 2, officers said.
According to the police, Diwakar is a former employee of Mahim Patran Ltd, the printing press in Agra from where the Maharashtra TET-2026 paper was leaked.
Officers said that Diwakar quit his job at the press, but maintained contact with three employees-Nareshkumar Puranchand Mahore, 35; Sanjaykumar Sureshchandra Chandra, 44; and Babulal Narayansingh Kushwaha, 45-who regularly provided him with information regarding examination papers being printed at the facility. Diwakar would then allegedly forward this information to Gupta and other co-conspirators.
Assistant commissioner of police Sachin Sangle, who is part of the SIT, said that Diwakar surrendered after the police raided locations in Bihar to trace him....
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