MUMBAI: After months on the run, Bijendra Gupta, the main accused in the Maharashtra TET paper leak case, was arrested by Thane police from Bihar on Saturday morning.Gupta was wanted in the Maharashtra TET paper leak case, in which the SIT had earlier arrested his wife, Suman Gupta, alleging that she managed the proceeds of the racket and helped him evade arrest.Police had also issued a look-out circular against Gupta, who is also an accused in examination paper leak cases in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha. He was out on bail in the Odisha case.Earlier this week, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Maharashtra Teacher Eligibility Test (TET) 2026 paper leak claimed that the alleged mastermind, Gupta, lured two employees of an Agra-based printing press into leaking the exam papers by promising them a plot of land each. Investigators also alleged that Gupta gave the two men Rs 8,000 each for a “liquor party” before they smuggled out copies of the question papers.According to police, Babulal Kushwaha and Naresh Kumar exploited security loopholes at the printing press to steal all four sets of the TET question papers before they were dispatched to Maharashtra. The papers were then allegedly passed on to Gupta through his network.The probe has also found that Gupta had struck a deal through arrested accused Kapil Dahiya to sell the leaked papers to a Pune-based man, who remains absconding. Police said the suspect was in contact with nearly 50 teacher aspirants who were willing to buy the leaked question papers ahead of the June 28 examination.The alleged leak was foiled after Bhiwandi Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police Pawan Bansod received a tip-off a day before the exam.
