The Patna police on Sunday arrested three persons, including the headmistress of Sanjay Gandhi High School in Samastipur district, in connection with forgery by intermediate arts topper Ganesh Kumar.
Mr. Kumar, who was stripped of his intermediate arts topper title for submitting forged documents to appear in Class XII examination, had passed matriculation from Sanjay Gandhi High School in 2015.
Rosra sub-division Deputy Superintendent of Police Ajit Kumar said a police team from Patna arrested Dev Kumari, the headmistress of Sanjay Gandhi High School, from her Sharda Nagar residence in Rosra town.
The police also arrested Ms. Kumari’s husband Ram Kumar Choudhary, also the former secretary of the school, as well as its clerk Gautam Kumar from Lakshminiya village in Samastipur district, the Deputy SP said.
Date of birth fudged
The special police team took the three to Patna for interrogation, he said. Mr. Kumar, who was declared intermediate arts topper of 2017 10+2 exam, was arrested on June 2 on the charge of fudging his date of birth. He is in 14-day judicial custody.