Odisha exam leak: Board VP arrested after paper sold for ₹2.5L
Big news for anyone following the OTET saga: Nihar Ranjan Mohanty, Vice-President of the Odisha Board of Secondary Education, was arrested after the teacher eligibility test paper leaked and the exam got canceled—impacting about 75,000 hopeful candidates.
The leak happened when a password-protected file was mishandled during proofreading.
Mohanty and Moharana were allegedly in cahoots
Investigators say data entry operator Jitan Moharana copied the paper from Mohanty's laptop using a pen drive, then passed it to members of a teachers' association who sold it to brokers for ₹2.5 lakh.
Before Mohanty's arrest, Moharana and five others were already in custody.
Over 100 phone calls between Mohanty and Moharana pointed to their teamwork outside office hours—a major move as Odisha cracks down on exam cheating.