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The Odisha Government terminated the empanelment of an IT firm, which was allegedly progressive successful the sub-inspector recruitment scam, according to a notification.
The Tier-1 empanelment of Bhubaneswar-based Silicon Tech Lab Pvt Ltd was terminated by the Electronics and IT Department for "violation of aggregate worldly clauses of its work agreement", the notification said.
The Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB) had outsourced the behaviour of the Combined Police Service Examination (CPSE) 2024 for the recruitment of 933 sub-inspectors to Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) ITI Ltd, which further sub-contracted the enactment to Silicon Techlab.
Silicon Techlab, successful turn, assigned cardinal responsibilities to Panchsoft Technologies.
The irregularities were detected aft 114 aspirants and 3 suspected brokers were nabbed connected the nighttime of September 29 astatine the State’s borderline with Andhra Pradesh erstwhile they were going to a “special coaching” centre successful Vijayanagaram from Bhubaneswar.
According to police, the arrested aspirants had paid ₹10 lakh each to the racket, and were expected to wage different ₹25 lakh aft securing the job.
Later, the Crime Branch of Odisha Police took immoderate much brokers into custody and arrested the mastermind of the scam. Silicon Techlab's promoter, Suresh Nayak, was besides arrested.
The lawsuit was handed implicit to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) connected November 12.
