Jaipur, Jun 21 (PTI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested the owner of a Jaipur-based private school on Wednesday as part of its money-laundering probe in a case involving the alleged leak of the Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) 2021 question paper, official sources said.
Ram Kripal Meena was taken into custody under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and produced before a special court here. The court sent him to the federal agency’s custody till June 27, the sources said.
The ED informed the court that Meena was “one of the main persons who conceptualised and was instrumental in the execution of the question paper leak of REET examination and has also connived with others in collection or acquisition and laundering of the proceeds of crime”.
