Two candidates who sat for the contentious police sub-inspector recruitment examination in Karnataka final yr have been launched on bail by a particular court docket in Bengaluru on Friday.
The candidates, Jagrut S and Rachana Hanumantha, had been named as major accused within the rip-off, which has triggered a political slugfest within the southern state in the previous couple of months. The duo had been among the many toppers within the examination, and had been accused in an FIR for dishonest after their optical mark recognition (OMR) sheets had been discovered to be tampered with.
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Information company PTI reported that their advocate filed bail functions in October and cited that they needn’t be put by ‘continued incarceration’ because the cost sheet has already been filed within the case. Whereas Jagrut, who was ranked fourth within the examination, has been in custody since July, Rachana, who secured 153 marks out of 200 to prime the ladies’s class, has been in custody since August 28.
After studying that the outcomes of final October’s PSI recruitment exams will likely be discarded and a recent examination will likely be carried out, a number of candidates protested at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park in Might, led by Jagrut, and demanded posting orders.
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Jagrut and Rachana had been amongst 22 candidates named in an FIR filed by CID on the Excessive Grounds police station. A number of high-profile officers, together with politicians and IPS officers, have been arrested in relation to the the PSI rip-off in Karnataka.
(With PTI inputs)