CID arrests ADGP ranked IPS Officer in Karnataka PSI recruitment scam
Bengaluru: Senior IPS Officer Amrit Paul was on Monday arrested by the investigating team for PSI Recruitment Scam. Paul was arrested in Bengaluru by the CID team investigating the matter.
Paul was being questioned by the probing team for the last four days and was arrested on Monday.
This also marks the first instance where a high-ranking IPS officer has been arrested. Paul is an Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) ranked officer of the state’s cadre.
Paul had come under the scanner following the recruitment scam, in which around 30 candidates had secured top ranks by indulging in malpractices, including tampering with the answer sheets after colluding with middlemen and some police officers who were handling the recruitment process.
The PSI recruitment exam was conducted in October 2021 for the appointment of 545 sub-inspectors.
The exam was attended by 54,000 candidates in 93 centres across the state and the e results were announced in January this year.
The scam was exposed following reports of large-scale rigging with regard to the allotment of examination centres and allegations of bribery securing top ranks.
Under pressure, the government annulled the results and ordered a CID probe.
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Excise officers seize more than 200 boxes of Goan liquor stored illegally in Karkala house
Udupi: The Udupi Excise Department seized more than 200 boxes of Goa liquor, worth lakhs of rupees, which had been stored illegally in a house owned by Avinash Malli in Bola village of Karkala taluk.
The excise officers conducted a raid on the two houses owned by Malli in the village under suspicion that a liquor racket was functioning from there. They found and confiscated the 200 boxes of illegal supplies of Goan liquor in one of the houses, during the raid.
Further investigation on the matter is on.
