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Justice HP Sandesh, Judge, Karnataka High Court, has remarked that the PSI recruitment scam in Karnataka is an act of against the society. The judge, remarked this while hearing bail petitions of a few candidates, who were selected to be police sub-inspectors but were arrested later, for cheating in the exam.
According to the Indian Express, the court has sought the details of reports of the State Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) on the basis of which cases of cheating have been registered against as many 32 candidates. These candidates, appeared for a Police Sub-Inspectors recruitment exam in October 2021.
The exam scam allegedly occurred, with the help of officials of the Karnataka police recruitment cell. It has been alleged that, in some centres in the State, the middlemen, passed on the answers to candidates with the cooperation of invigilators and officials.
The CID investigation, found that In Bengaluru, OMR sheets of the candidates were modified at the police recruitment cell. The investigation also unearthed that, the OMR sheets of the candidates named in the cases had revealed vast differences between the original OMR sheets dispatched to the police recruitment cell and the carbon copies with candidates.
Nearly 54,287 candidates wrote the examination for 545 vacancies on October 3, 2021. The result was declared in January 2022, but the result was declared void after the investigation unearthed evidence of a scam. It has also been reported, that candidates paid between Rs 30 lakh and Rs 80 lakh to agents, for scoring higher marks despite attempting fewer questions.
When the matter was heard yesterday, the CID submitted carbon copies of all the OMR sheets of the 545 selected candidates. However, Justice Sandesh passed an order, for production of the FSL report which indicates the tampering of the original OMR sheets. It has been reported, that the CID also gave a sealed report to the court on the modus operandi involved in the exam fraud.
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