The Mumbra cops on Thursday arrested Krishnamurthy Shiva Iyer, who has filed his nomination from Kalyan constituency for the Lok Sabha polls as an Independent, for failing to report at the police station for questioning in connection with a school he had illegally established three years back.

Iyer, 57, is an educationist who earlier worked as an economics professor at Model College in Dombivli. Around three years back, he started a concept of budget schools to provide better education to students. He established three schools in Mumbra, but his third institution - Rainbow School at Mumbra Devi Colony Road in Diva - did not get a recognition from the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC).