Summary:
Guwahati, Dec 3 (PTI) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Assam Police on Friday filed the first charge sheet against 40 accused people - 33 teachers and seven middlemen - for allegedly obtaining and facilitating fake Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) certificates in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).
A detailed 1175-page charge sheet listing 106 witnesses and 38 material objects was filed before the Kamrup Metro Chief Judicial Magistrate within 60 days from the date of registration of the case on October 3, 2021, according to a press release issued by Assam Police.
A lecturer of a government college in Nagaon, and three state government employees are among the accused middlemen.
The case was registered by the CID following the directions of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
The 40 accused were arrested from Kamrup (Rural), Chirang, Udalguri, Nagaon, and Hojai districts and remanded to judicial custody.
Investigation revealed that the teachers had fraudulently obtained fake TET pass certificates from the main accused by paying lakhs of rupees through middlemen.