Patna: An accused in the Bihar topper scam died after getting injured while trying to escape from the police.
According to reports, when police went to search his premise, Diwakar Prasad slipped from stairs while he was trying to escape and injured himself on Thursday. He was taken to hospital where he died later on.
A police team had gone to Prasad's house to arrest him in connection with a case related to irregularities in floating tender for supply of answer sheets of the Intermediate examination to Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB).
Prasad owned a printing press in Patna, which was earlier raided by the member of the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the scam.
The Bihar topper scam came into limelight on 31 May 2016 when the BSEB Arts and Humanities topper Ruby Rai, Science topper Saurabh Shrestha and third topper in Science stream Rahul Kumar were interviewed by television channels and they were unable to answer to basic questions.
Rai, student of Vishnu Roy College, Kiratpur Raja Ram village in Vaishali district pronounced Political Science as 'Prodigal Science' and described it as a subject related to cooking.
Shrestha was unaware of electron and proton and wrongly said alumunium is the most reactive element.
After the video of their interviews went viral, a three-member SIT was formed by the Bihar state government to look into the fraud.
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