Pune Jan 29 PTI An IAS officer was arrested on Saturday in connection with alleged manipulation of the results of the Maharashtra governments Teachers Eligibility Test TET held in 2020 an official said hereSushil Khodwekar 47 now posted as deputy secretary with the agriculture department had allegedly taken money from some of the accused and ordered removal of a firm from the blacklist he saidHe was arrested from Thane by Pune Polices cyber wing which is probing the case This is the 13th arrest in the caseOn Friday the investigators had said the marks of 7800 TET-2020 candidates were manipulated by the accused for money The test was part of the recruitment process for teachers postsThose arrested include Tukaram Supe commissioner now suspended of the Maharashtra State Council of Examinations MSCE Pritesh Deshmukh director of G A Software which was responsible for conducting the test and Abhishek Sawrikar a consultant with the education departmentKhodwekar posted with the education department when the scam unfolded allegedly received lakhs of rupees from the other accused said inspector Kumar Ghadge of the Pune cyber police stationG A Software had been blacklisted by the government earlier But Khodwekar allegedly gave instructions to Supe to remove it from the blacklist he saidPritesh Deshmukh and Supe through co-accused Manoj Dongare allegedly paid lakhs of rupees to Khodwekar the official saidTechnical analysis of mobile phones of Sawarikar and Deshmukh also threw some light on Khodwekars involvement said inspector GhadgeA court remanded the IAS officer in police custody till January 31 and further probe is on he said PTI COR NP KRK KRK

Pune Dec 21 PTI Pune Police have arrested Maharashtra State Council of Examinations MSCE former commissioner Sukhadev Dere in connection with alleged malpractices in the 2018 Teachers Eligibility Test an official said on Tuesday Dere was taken into custody late Monday night based on information received by police during an ongoing investigation into the alleged irregularities in the 2020 Teachers Eligibility Test TET in which MSCE commissioner Tukaram Supe was arrested last week said the official from the Pune polices cyber and economic offences wing A separate case has been registered against Dere for his alleged involvement in malpractices in the 2018 TET Further investigation is going on he said Supe and another person had been arrested by the Pune police for allegedly taking money to change the results of some candidates so that they can clear the TET officials earlier said The police had also recovered unaccounted cash and gold ornaments worth over Rs 2 crore from Supe they said The alleged malpractices in the TET came to the light during the investigation into the bid to leak a paper of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority MHADA examination in which six people have already been arrested police said PTI COR GK GK