Uttar Pradesh Board of Secondary Education Director Sanjay Mohan was arrested on Wednesday,allegedly for collecting money from candidates who appeared in the 2011 Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) to facilitate their selection. The police recovered Rs 4.89 lakh and documents of some candidates from Mohans residence. The police had picked up Mohan from his official residence in Lucknow on Tuesday and arrested him following interrogation. The state government placed him under suspension. Rama Bai Nagar SP Subhash Chandra Dubey said that investigations so far had shown that Mohan had allegedly struck a deal with a group of touts assuring them of selection of 800 candidates for Rs 8 crore. He had demanded Rs 1 lakh for each candidate and got Rs 50 lakh as the first instalment,Dubey said. He added that the racket came to light after the Rama Bai Nagar police caught the group of five persons in Akbarpur area on December 31 last year and seized Rs 86.73 lakh cash and photocopies of documents of TET candidates. The five confessed to have collected the money from the candidates.
