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Odisha Police connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) widened its probe into the cash-for-job scam by raiding a salient city-based coaching institute, Banik Coaching Centre.
According to the State Crime Branch, the raid followed revelations that respective of the arrested occupation aspirants had links with the centre.
Earlier this month, constabulary arrested 114 candidates who were allegedly taken extracurricular the State to get leaked question papers for the Combined Police Service Examination (CPSE) 2024, which has since been cancelled.
As per the investigation, each aspirant had agreed to wage ₹25 lakh for entree to the question papers—₹10 lakh arsenic an beforehand and the remaining ₹15 lakh aft securing the job.
“We person travel to cognize that immoderate of the arrested aspirants were associated with the coaching centre. We person sought 5 years of records connected students who received grooming there,” said Narendra Behera, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Crime Branch.
Mr. Behera added that the records would beryllium scrutinised to verify immoderate imaginable nexus betwixt the coaching centre, occupation seekers, and the scamsters.
Reacting to the development, Subrat Chhatoi, Managing Director of Banik Coaching Centre, said, “We person been providing prime acquisition for the past 12 years. We person thing to fell and volition afloat cooperate with the investigating team.”
Meanwhile, the Youth Congress staged a monolithic protestation successful Bhubaneswar, targeting the Mohan Majhi Government implicit the alleged recruitment scam.
“There is simply a recruitment scam successful Odisha, and occupation seekers are being deceived. The authorities indispensable beryllium held accountable,” charged Uday Bhanu Chib, nationalist president of the Youth Congress.
In a statement, the Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB), which conducted the introspection for recruitment of sub-inspectors, urged aspirants to stay patient, assuring that the introspection would beryllium reconducted successful a transparent manner.
