Pune City Police have arrested Maharashtra State Examination Council Commissioner Tukaram Supe in connection with Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) paper leak case held in January 2020.
Supe along with consultant, Education Department, Abhijit Savrikar were arrested on December 16 by personnel of the Cyber crime police station of Pune City police, which is currently investigating a case of alleged paper leak in the recruitment process for Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA).
Police previously arrested six people in the matter, including Dr Pritish Deshmukh, director of GA Software Technologies Pvt Ltd, which was given the contract of conducting recruitment exams for various departments.
During the investigation of Deshmukh’s house, the police found TET admit cards. Also, hall tickets of some ineligible students were seized.
Therefore, there was a suspicion of malpractice in the TET examination and the investigation was initiated accordingly.
After this, Pune police called Supe for questioning and placed him under arrest, an investigator said.
Cash, gold worth Rs 2 cr recovered after searches at houses of commissioner
Police had recovered over Rs 95 lakh in cash, gold ornaments and fixed deposit documents in a search conducted at the residential premises of Supe.
In further searches conducted at the residential premises of Supe’s family members and other people connected to them.
Police recovered cash amounting to Rs 1.58 crore, and around one kilogram of gold, totalling worth over Rs 2 crore, allegedly amassed by Supe through malpractices.