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Friday night after recovery of more than one lakh answer sheets of intermediate examination conducted in 2017. “Police were investigating about other scrap yards of Gupta too in the case,” he said. He was allegedly found to be acting in connivance of former BSEB chairman Lalkeshwar Prasad Singh and an employee Vikash Singh for recycling answer sheets which were fraudulently printed by BSEB through a Gujarat based printer.Meanwhile, when asked, BSEB chairman Anand Kishor said that Gupta was given responsibility for purchasing and recycling answer sheets of BSEB from all evaluation centres across the state.“He was authorised to purchase answer sheets of examination conducted in in year 2014 and 2016, but not of 2017. Someone tipped off BSEB that he had purchased answer sheets of examination conducted in 2017 too and an FIR was lodged with the Kotwali police station following which he got arrested,” Kishor said.When asked that how a scrap dealer tainted in toppers’ scam was allotted tender for recycling answer sheets again, Kishor said as Gupta was not convicted by the court yet, he was again allotted responsibility to purchase answer sheets to recycle them.When asked if BSEB would continue to allot him responsibility until court delivers a verdict, Kishor said that he would be barred onwards from taking up job to purchase and recycle answer sheets now.Sources said that BSEB and a senior Patna police officer was alerted by businessmen that tainted Gupta was being allotted tender again for recycling answer sheets, but all turned blind eye towards it.Meanwhile, City SP (central) D Amarkesh said that raids were on to nab the Marwari College peon Rampukar Singh who took Rs 8,000 from Gupta and sold him the answer sheets. PATNA: The state government’s attempt to keep Bihar School Examination Board BSEB ) far from scams and tainted persons, seems to have failed as the board has again given responsibility to a scrap dealer for buying used answer sheets, who was accused in intermediate toppers’ scam that hit national headlines in 2016.The matter surfaced after Patna police arrested the scrap dealer Raj Kishore Gupta from his scrapyard at Ram Krishna Nagar police station area in Patna on lateKotwali police station SHO Rama Shankar said Gupta was allotted tender for buying answer sheets of examinations of Class-X and Class-XII conducted in 2014 and 2016, almost a month back.Patna SSP Manu Maharaaj said Gupta was a non-FIR accused in copy tender scam worth around Rs 9 crore which had arose from investigation of toppers’ scam and was behind bar for several months..