Bihar Ssc Chairman Arrested Inward Recruitment Scam

Bihar SSC chairman arrested inward Recruitment Scam

Senior IAS officeholder together with Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) chairman Sudhir Kumar was arrested past times a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday inward connector amongst the recruitment examine scam of third degree clerical positions.

"SIT has arrested BSSC chairman Sudhir Kumar together with iv others, including his brother, sister-in-law together with ii of his nephew, inward connector amongst the scam," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manu Maharaaj told newsmen after questioning Kumar for hours. Maharaaj is too heading the exceptional squad constituted on the orders of the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to investigate the matter.

"We arrested Kumar on the soil of concrete prove of his utilisation inward the entire matter," he added. According to the police, Kumar leaked the questions together with the answer fundamental to his blood brother Awadesh Kumar, who inward plow gave this to his married adult woman together with his nephew Ashish Kumar. Both of them were appearing inward the examination. The newspaper was afterward farther leaked to several coaching institute owners, who sold it to the highest bidders.

Maharaaj too clarified that Kumar was arrested close Patna Airport on Fri morning. Earlier local media reports indicated that the senior IAS officeholder had been arrested from Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district. Kumar was afterward grilled for hours past times the SIT, but he evaded virtually of the questions, told constabulary officials.

Meanwhile, the arrest too sparked a tussle betwixt powerful IAS together with IPS lobbies inward Bihar.

The Bihar chapter of IAS Officers' Association has "strongly demanded" a CBI inquiry to ensure an independent together with fair probe.

The Association expressed deep anger together with anguish over the arrest together with said that it would stimulate got upward the affair amongst Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.

The Association, inward a press release, termed the arrest equally "completely unwarranted" equally the BSSC chairman is an honest together with sincere officeholder together with was cooperating amongst the investigation together with demanded his immediate release. The free said the Association has "decided to deport all legal together with other expenses on his behalf".

On the other hand, Police termed Kumar's arrest equally essential to unearth the whole racket. "We stimulate got followed all necessary procedures earlier making the arrest. We stimulate got done a really thorough together with technical enquiry. All evidences pointed towards interest of BSSC Chairman. He has together with thence far refused to answer virtually of our quarries. Therefore, final nighttime nosotros submitted a memo of prove to a gauge together with obtained a warrant for his arrest," told Patna SSP.

The Bihar authorities had on Feb 8 final cancelled the BSSC examine held to fill upward up the posts of clerks inward nation authorities jobs inward the wake of newspaper leak. So far, 34 people stimulate got been arrested inward the matter.

Src: Business-Standard