
Senior IPS Officer Arrested In Karnataka Police Recruitment Scam
NDTV
The arrested IPS officer Amrit Paul was the head of the recruitment cell when the scam came to light in April this year.
An ADGP-rank officer was on Monday arrested by the Karnataka Crime Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the police sub-inspector recruitment scam, highly-placed police sources said.
The arrested IPS officer Amrit Paul was the head of the recruitment cell when the scam came to light in April this year.
After reports of large-scale irregularities, he was transferred to the post of the ADGP, Internal Security Division.
According to top sources, the Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) sheets of the fraudulent candidates were allegedly tampered in the recruitment division itself. They also claimed that Paul was allegedly in the know of the happenings.
