Bhubaneswar: A Headmaster from Kalahandi district, Prasant Kumar Khamari, has been suspended from his position following his arrest by the Crime Branch in connection with the leak of the Special Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) question paper.
The School and Mass Education Department issued a suspension order in this regard.
Khamari, who was serving as the headmaster of Bhejipadar High School in Kalahandi, was one of the eight persons arrested in the case, including Nihar Ranjan Mohanty, the vice-president of the Board of Secondary Education.
According to reports, the accused, Prasant Kumar Khamari, hatched a criminal conspiracy with Bijay Kumar Mishra, Ex-Cadre Working President of State Ex-Cadre Teacher Association, and others. During the investigation, it was proved that Khamari orchestrated the crime, wrote the computerised question papers in his handwriting and sold them to gullible teachers who had failed in the last Special OTET examination. We found that he transferred Rs 99,000 to Bijay Kumar Mishra via Phone Pay, which was collected from these teachers.
