The legal investigation division (CID) investigating the Karnataka lecturers’ recruitment rip-off arrested six folks, together with two senior officers of the Division of Faculty Schooling and Literacy on Monday, officers stated.
The arrested people have been recognized as Karnataka Textbook Society director M P Madegowda, Samagra Shikshana Abhiyana director S Geeta, three retired joint administrators D Okay Shivakumar, Okay Ratnaiah and G R Basavaraj, and pc programmer Narasimharao.
Earlier, the CID had arrested 13 folks in reference to the case over alleged irregularities within the recruitment course of that happened in 2014-15. Three FIRs have been filed on the Vidhana Soudha police station lately, which have been then handed over to the CID for investigation.
The arrests, in keeping with sources, have been primarily based on the statements of lecturers and Okay M Prasad, who was a primary division assistant within the division. They’d contended that senior officers had handed over appointment orders in a rush with out verifying the veracity of the paperwork submitted by the candidates.
Sources alleged the recruitment orders have been issued for a cost of Rs 5 to 10 lakh, although the names of a lot of the candidates appointed thus have been on the extra checklist. The irregularities allegedly happened in an organised method and extra particulars are anticipated to emerge because the investigation progresses.
Extra officers within the division are more likely to be served notices in reference to the rip-off, in keeping with CID sources. The rip-off, which occurred in the course of the Congress rule in Karnataka, is politically important because the ruling BJP has used the investigation to counter the corruption allegations levelled in opposition to itself by the Opposition Congress.