India, April 14 -- Following the suspension of senior superintendent Nilesh Waghmare by the School Education Department on April 9, Nagpur police on Friday night arrested Ulhas Narad, 54, deputy director of education (Gadchiroli), and Parag Nanaji Pudke, 33, a school principal in connection with the recruitment of '580 bogus teachers', which cost the state exchequer over Rs.100 crore.

The investigation is now set to gather momentum as the state government has recommended the formation of Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe how 580 fake teachers and non-teaching staff managed to receive monthly salaries-ranging between Rs.40,000 and Rs.80,000-since 2019, by uploading fabricated identities onto Shalarth, the state's centralised web-b...