The arrest was made on the basis of several complaints made by victims who accused him of demanding hefty sums of money in return for admission of their wards.
The decision come in spite of the Gauhati HC having ordered the probe to be shifted. What's more, Himanta Biswa Sarma himself was in charge of the government division involved in the scam.
The Criminal Investigation Department of Assam Police has registered a case against 36 teachers who got jobs allegedly with "forged" Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) certificates in Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR).