The re-examination for the recruitment of 545 police sub-inspectors (PSI), being conducted on Sunday, has run into a controversy after an audio clip of a constable talking to an aspirant about “ensuring a job and getting the question paper beforehand” went viral on Friday.
However, Home Minister G. Parameshwara said the official in the audio clip is a State Intelligence officer, who has claimed to have made a fake call to an aspirant as part of his job to ferret out information about possible malpractices. “The investigation is on and we will take stringent action if any malpractice is found,” he said. However, this has not gone down well with the Opposition leaders who have alleged a cover-up and demanded a detailed probe into the allegations. “There needs to be a thorough probe into these allegations and they should not be brushed under the carpet,” said BJP leader C.T. Ravi.
Senior officials probing the allegations told The Hindu that till now the investigations have neither revealed any exchange of money nor a question paper leak, as alleged.
