Patna July 21 (IANS) Hundreds of missing answer sheets of the Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) Class 12 exam of 2017 were recovered from a scrap dealer here on Saturday and the dealer arrested police said.
Acting on specific information a police team raided the scrap dealer s store and recovered the copies that went missing last year. Scrap dealer Rajkishore Gupra was arrested for purchasing them police said.
According to police a peon of the BSEB along with others had sold the copies of answer sheets to the scrap dealer.
Last month a Special Investigation Team of the Bihar Police recovered thousands of missing copies of answer sheets of the BSEB Class 10 exam from a scrap dealer s shop and arrested two persons in the connection.
Then shopkeeper Pappu Gupta said that peon Chotu Singh of a government-run school had sold the answer sheets to him for Rs 8 500.

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