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Police person busted a racket allegedly progressive successful leaking the Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) question insubstantial and facilitating candidates to wide the introspection done fraudulent means successful Maharashtra's Kolhapur district, officials said.
The TET was conducted connected November 23. TET is simply a mandatory qualifying exam for the recruitment of teachers successful superior and precocious superior schools.
Acting connected a tip-off that immoderate individuals were circulating the question insubstantial connected the eve of the exam for money, the constabulary swung into enactment and detained respective suspects. So far, 18 persons, including the cardinal accused Mahesh Gaikwad, person been arrested, the officials said connected Tuesday (November 25).
"Based connected the inputs, a associated squad of the Local Crime Branch and Murgud constabulary raided a furnishings store successful Songe colony successful Kagal tehsil successful the aboriginal hours of November 23. During the raid, 5 candidates, who were expected to look for the TET aboriginal that day, were recovered astatine the spot," a constabulary authoritative said.
"When asked, they said that 1 Rahul Patil was expected to get with the leaked question paper," helium said.
Patil and 2 others were subsequently detained. During their interrogation, Patil allegedly confessed that Gaikwad had promised to supply him with the TET paper, which helium was to manus implicit to the candidates for Rs 3 lakh, the authoritative said.
Gaikwad was aboriginal arrested from Karad successful Satara district, helium added.
"So far, we person arrested 18 persons successful the lawsuit and the fig whitethorn emergence arsenic the probe progresses. The engagement of much individuals, including facilitators and beneficiaries of the leak, is being investigated. We are besides verifying the fiscal transactions linked to the scam," the authoritative said.
