Karnataka cabinet gives nod to SIT probe in police recruitment scam
Bengaluru, Mar 14: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to set up a Special Investigation Team to probe the police sub-inspector recruitment scam.
The decision to form a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was taken on the recommendations of Justice B Veerappa Commission.
Justice Veerappa recently submitted his report on the scam and said that 113 people were involved in it including government officers, employees and some middlemen.
Though some people did not respond to the summons, they gave statements in public but did not appear before the commission, Karnataka Revenue Minister Krishna Byre Gowda told reporters.
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Since the commission does not have power to summon them forcibly, it said that statements of such people should be obtained through another probe, the minister said.
"Based on the suggestions of the Commission, the cabinet has decided to set up an SIT," Gowda said.
According to him, already the Crime Investigation Department (CID) is probing 17 cases, since the commission highlighted more points that need a probe, an SIT was recommended. Gowda clarified that there was no proposal to stop the investigation by the CID as it would lead to confusions.
The PSI recruitment exam was conducted in October 2021. Large scale irregularities in it forced the government to cancel the examination. Several police officers including ADGP Amrit Paul were arrested.
Other details also emerged from the cabinet meeting, said sources.
The Karnataka cabinet expressed its resolve to build a statue of Goddess Bhuvaneshwari', a symbol of Karnataka, on the Vidhana Soudha premises at a cost of Rs 23 crore. A theme based garden will also be developed around the statue, sources said.
It also decided to develop a tree park on 60-65 acres of NGF land in East Bengaluru near KR Puram. The proposed tree park will have a bicycle track, walking track and a playground. It will be developed at an estimated cost of Rs 11 crore, the sources said, adding that each acre in that area costs about Rs 25 crore.
The cabinet has also decided to spend Rs 40 crore to upgrade the Primary Health Centres (PHC) by supplying them equipment, "which were not given to them in the last three to four years", sources said.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
