Bihar toppers scam: Former board chairman, wife arrested
Patna, June 20
Former chairman of Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh — the suspected mastermind of the toppers scam in the Bihar intermediate examination — and his wife, former Janata Dal (United) MLA Usha Sinha, were arrested on Tuesday from Varanasi, a senior police officer said.
"Lalkeshwar Singh and his wife Usha Sinha have been arrested from Varanasi,” Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) arrested the two after they received a tip about their presence in the temple city of neighbouring Uttar Pradesh.
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Lalkeshwar Singh and his wife Usha Sinha have been missing since the police secured a warrant for their arrest from a Patna court for irregularities in Bihar’s Class 12 examinations.
Usha Sinha, a former JD (U) MLA from Hilsa and Principal of Ganga Devi college in Patna from which she was expelled is a co-accused in an admission racket, in which students paid bribes to get degrees. — PTI
