The Legal Investigation Division (CID) probe into the Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) recruitment rip-off in Karnataka has revealed that 13 aspirants showing for the examination in numerous centres wrote 11 incorrect solutions for a similar set of questions which revealed that the solutions got here from the identical supply, in response to the chargesheet.
The CID on Monday submitted the cost sheet in a case registered at Ashoknagar police station in Kalaburagi city the place it has named Bhagavanth Raya Jogur, Rudragouda Patil aka R D Patil, Ravutappa and Kashinath. Rudragouda Patil is taken into account to be the kingpin of the rip-off, Ravutappa labored as a intermediary and Kashinath was the headmaster of Jnana Jyothi English Medium College, which was one of many centres for the examination.
Within the chargesheet submitted by the CID police in opposition to Bhagavanthray Jogur, a resident of Yathanur village in Kalaburagi, the company mentioned that he together with 12 others wrote incorrect solutions for a similar set of questions.
Jogur, who had appeared for PSI examinations up to now, was unable to clear them. Making a cope with Patil, Jogur agreed to pay Rs 40 lakh and made an advance cost of Rs 10 lakh. He obtained Bluetooth units from Gollalappa, one other accused, the chargesheet added. Jogur secured the primary rank in Kalyana Karnataka area by securing 167.375 marks.
As per the plan, Jogur was to seem for the examination at Sri Sharanabasaveshwara Faculty of Commerce in Kalaburagi. The investigation revealed that through the paper-2 examination, which was out of 100 marks, he obtained eight calls from three numbers, lasting a complete of 1,356 seconds (about 22 minutes).
In line with the chargesheet, an evaluation of the reply sheets of the 12 different accused aspirants confirmed that they’d ticked the identical 11 incorrect solutions, however all of them appeared for the examination at totally different centres. Apart from Jogur, the opposite candidates are Ismail Khader, Vishwanath Mane, Vijayakumar, Siddugowda, Raviteja, Srishaila, Somanath, Peerappa, Hayyali, Vishal, Sunil Kumar and Kallappa.
All these accused received the ‘E’ set of query paper, for which they’d given the incorrect reply. In line with a police supply, the incorrect solutions in all these 13 circumstances have been precisely the identical. The solutions have been dictated over Bluetooth to all of the accused, however it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not these errors have been completed intentionally or the one that shared the reply had received it incorrect. Nevertheless, it’s clear that every one of them received the reply from the identical supply.
The CID officers added that there are 5 extra aspirants below the scanner who appeared for the examination at Sri Sharanabasaveshwara Faculty of Commerce whose incorrect solutions additionally match.
The examination for 545 posts of police sub-inspector was held on October 3, 2021 and round 54,041 college students appeared for it. The matter got here to gentle after the OMR sheet of one of many accused, Veeresh N, surfaced. Veeresh, who obtained the seventh rank within the Kalyana Karnataka area, was discovered to have obtained 121 marks regardless of answering solely 21 out of 100 questions in an goal paper for 150 marks as per the carbon copy of his OMR sheet. The case was then handed over to CID to probe.