Kolkata:
On Tuesday, a suspect in the Bihar topper scam, Vikas Kumar was arrested from
Maheshtala Jhinjhirabazar in South-24 Parganas in a joint raid by the West
Bengal CID and Bihar ATS.
Kumar,
39, a resident of Bihar’s Pataliputra, is a clerk and storekeeper with Bihar
State Examination Board (BSEB). He had allegedly played an important role in
several such scams.
This
comes days after BSEB Class XII Arts topper Ruby Rai was arrested in the exam
racket.
Rai
had famously described the political science subject as “prodigal science”, and
also described it as the science of “cooking” before television cameras after
the results were announced, and she was declared the topper. The education
board later cancelled her results after she failed in the re-test that was
conducted. Two other toppers, Saurabh Shreshtha and Rahul Kumar, also failed
their re-exams.
“Vikas
Kumar had been absconding for a long time. He was finally arrested in a joint
raid by the CID and Bihar Police officials… The Bihar Police had been tracking
him. They will take him to Bihar where he will be interrogated further,” said
CID DIG (Operations) Dilip Adak.
“Vikas
is believed to be one of the key accused in the Ruby Rai case. His exact role
is a matter of investigation,” said a senior officer.
Sources
said a Mathura-based agency had received the tender to print question papers
for BSEB. However, Kumar being a clerk at BSEB, handed over the question papers
to another agency, Bindya Enterprises, for printing purposes. He reportedly
took help from his associate, R Kishore, in this.
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