The Enforcement Directorate (ED) Friday stated it has carried out a search operation on the residence of Extra Director Common of Police (ADGP) Amrit Paul in Bengaluru and numerous different authorities officers and personal individuals in reference to the police sub-inspector recruitment rip-off.
Within the assertion ED stated, “The Karnataka Police Recruitment Cell had carried out an examination for filling up 545 vacancies of Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) in Karnataka Police Division within the yr 2021. After the outcomes had been out, there have been allegations of dishonest, corrupt practices within the stated examination, resulting from which the Authorities of Karnataka ordered for investigation within the matter. Primarily based on the identical, numerous FIRs had been registered in opposition to candidates, middlemen and police officers concerned within the irregularities noticed within the PSI Recruitment Examination, 2021 in Bangalore and Kalaburagi which had been afterward transferred to CID for investigation. CID, Bengaluru has carried out searches at numerous premises and has arrested Amrit Paul, IPS and round 100 different individuals on this case.”
“Throughout the CID investigation, it was noticed that there was tampering of the OMR sheets within the strongroom of the Recruitment Cell on the CID headquarters at Carlton Home in Bengaluru. Police Officers, in-charge of the strongroom of recruitment cell, switched off the CCTV digicam on the strongroom, two armed head constables entered the strongroom and tampered with the OMR sheets. Additional, police officers collected cash from candidates for facilitating their choice utilizing unlawful means,” the ED stated.
Primarily based on the FIRs, the ED had registered an Enforcement Case Info Report dated 4 august this yr for the alleged offence of cash laundering.
“Throughout the search operation, numerous incriminating paperwork and digital devices had been recovered and seized by this workplace,” the company stated.