A few candidates made payment in instalments. The investigators say the aspirants involved in the scam paid around Rs 40 lakh to Rs 1 crore and got selected. It is suspected that around 75 per cent of the OMR sheets were forged. Correcting the OMR sheets comes under the ‘A’ category, whereas using Bluetooth devices comes under the ‘B’ category. Investigating officials said the crime falls under A and B categories. Whether such incidents happened in other exam centres in the state is yet to be ascertained. Now it has been found that almost 150 OMR sheets were manipulated by the above methods, mainly in the Bengaluru CID office and Kalburgi examination centres. They even took the help of a few staffers at the CID office, where the recruitment cell is located, to switch off the CCTVs. The DySP and his team entered the strongroom in the wee hours and “filled the OMR sheets of the selected candidates”. He gave the key of the strongroom and shared the password of the boxes where OMR sheets of around 54,000 candidates are stored with his subordinate of DySP rank (the person guarding the strongroom). The fourth step was the most dangerous, where allegedly the ADGP of the Police Recruitment Cell was involved. They prepared the answers and sent them back to the involved persons for filling the OMR sheets left by the candidates who had paid the cash for getting selected. In a few cases, some persons at the exam centres took a photo of the OMR sheet and, once it was circulated to the candidates, sent it to the scamsters outside. Booked candidates entered the exam hall with a tiny bluetooth instrument with a SIM card, through which an outsider dictated the answers to the candidate who filled out the OMR sheet. As the policemen on security and invigilators were also involved, there was little chance of doubts being raised on the answers given by those candidates.Īlso read: SSC scam: ED confident it has enough evidence to nail Partha Chatterjee, aide Arpita For example, if a ‘booked’ candidate filled only 5 of 100 questions in the OMR sheets and left the examination hall, the remaining questions would be answered by the agents later. Second, scamsters wrote correct answers in the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets of those candidates who were ‘booked’ by the agents. First, a system was put together to commit the crime - middlemen ‘booked’ invigilators, candidates and officials from the police recruitment wing. The modus operandi worked in four major steps. The involvement of politicians, bureaucrats and middlemen is suspected in the scam, where more than 54,000 aspirants for PSI posts in Karnataka were cheated. The scam, which hit the headlines recently, is an example of the fence eating the crop. Of them, around 30 are police officials, including an IPS officer of the rank of Additional Director General of Police (ADGP), Amrit Paul. The investigating agency CID has arrested 90 people accused in this scam in Karnataka. The court also observed that the manipulation of the exam process as seen in the PSI recruitment is a crime that can lead to anarchy in society. “The process of selection of Police Sub Inspector (PSI) is nothing but an act of terror to the society.” This observation was made by Justice HP Sandesh recently in the Karnataka High Court while hearing the bail plea of an accused in the multi-crore PSI scam.
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