The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Monday arrested Additional Director-General of Police (ADGP) Amrit Paul in the police sub inspectors’ (PSI) recruitment scam case. He was heading the Police Recruitment Cell, Karnataka, when the scam broke out and it was found that the OMR sheets were allegedly tampered with in the office. The CID arrested him after questioning him four times.
Hours after the arrest, the State government issued an order suspending Amrit Paul on Monday night. The order said Paul is entitled for subsistence allowance in accordance with rule 4 of the all India service rules. The order also stated that Paul should not leave the headquarters under any circumstance without the written permission of the government. He is the first ADGP-rank officer in the State police to be arrested.
The State government had transferred Mr. Paul to the Internal Security Division, replacing him with Kamal Pant, while probing his role. Earlier, P. Shantha Kumar, Deputy Superintendent of Police, and the other staff involved in the scam had been arrested.
