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Few noticed this Rs 100 cr scam
Updated On: 22 October, 2009 09:16 AM IST | | B V Shiva Shankar
As floods kept everyone busy, hardly anybody had time for what is said to be one of the biggest recruitment scams in state's history
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As floods kept everyone busy, hardly anybody had time for what is said to be one of the biggest recruitment scams in state's history
Any other time it would have created a furore. But the devastating floods diverted all attention from what the police say is one of the biggest government recruitment scams in state history.
Believed to run into Rs 100 crore, the scam that involved organised copying in an exam was revealed with the arrest some 20 days ago of seven people, including a man said to be a confidant of cabinet minister Shobha Karandlaje.
While there was a case involving six members of a family taking the first six ranks in a Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) exam in 1998 that smelt of wrongdoing, the money thought to be involved in that was nowhere near what it is in the latest scam.
Those arrested in the latest scam among the ones caught were two Karnataka Administrative Service (KAS) officers have been accused of stealing question papers and text-messaging the answers to the mobile phones of candidates in exam halls. Held on September 29, the exam was for the post of panchayat development officers.
This should have created a furore
Just two hours before the exam, a bundle of question papers had gone missing.
And, even as the exams were on statewide, the police seized near an exam centre in Gangavathi, Koppal district, a Toyota Innova in which they said the accused were sitting and sending out answers on SMS they also found a bundle of question papers in the car.
Eighteen mobiles were found and, police sources said, more than 3,000 SMS had been sent.
The police also found Rs 9 lakh in the car.
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