Bengaluru July 27: The First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court on Monday rejected the bail petition filed by arrested additional director general of police (ADGP) Amrit Paul in connection with the police sub-inspector (PSI) scandal.
The counsel for the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Prasanna Kumar appealed the court not to grant bail to arrested ADGP, as he was the person in charge of conducting the exams for recruitment of PSI posts. “The accused had the strong room keys, where the answer scripts were kept. He had given keys to other accused persons who fabricated answer sheets to favour candidates who had bribed them,” SPP Prasanna Kumar stated.
The fabrication of OMR sheets has been proved in the investigation of the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) and bail plea by arrested ADGP Amrit Paul should not be considered, he argued.
CID sleuths have already submitted 1,975 pages of charge sheet against 34 accused persons to the court in connection with the sensational PSI recruitment scandal.
The agency is now preparing to submit an additional charge sheet regarding the scandal. The exams for the PSI posts were held on October 3, 2021.
