Patna: The Patna Civil court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant against former Bihar State Education Board (BSEB) Chairman Lalkeshwar Singh for his involvement in forging intermediary mark sheets.
An arrest warrant was also issued against his wife and former JD (U) MLA Usha Sinha.
Singh had gone into hiding after his resignation last week while his wife and former JD (U) MLA Usha Sinha is untraceable after her role in toppers scam was established during an investigation.
Sinha was the principal of Ganga Devi College and was removed from the post on Tuesday by the authorities.
Earlier the mastermind behind toppers scam Bacha Rai was taken into custody by the SIT after he had surrendered on Saturday.
Meanwhile in order to expose the nexus between Lalkeshwar Singh and the education mafia, the board on Wednesday suspended several of its employees.
Police claimed that the action was taken after SIT found evidences against Singh and several employees.
According to Patna SSP Manu Maharaj, “Efforts are on to nab the absconding former BSEB chairman”.
“The investigative team has also found out that Singh had the knowledge that answer sheets were being tampered,” he added.
The thriving education mafia in Bihar was exposed after video of two toppers Ruby Rai and Saurabh Shrestha showed them struggling to answer some very basic questions on their subject of study, putting the entire education system in dock.
Interestingly both the students who had topped the state belonged to Bacha Rai’s Vishun Rai College in Vaishali district.
“Though Bacha Rai is not an isolated case, it has been established that he was using political connections and power on BSEB to get his work done,” educationist and former Patna college principal Prof Nawal Kishore Chaudhary said.
Last year the state education system was globally criticized after an image of a government school in Vaishali district showed people scaling up windows shades and walls to hand over answer chits to students appearing for board exams while police on duty helped them.
