PSI recruitment scam: Congress' Siddaramaiah urges Bommai to sack Karnataka home minister
Bengaluru (Karnataka), July 5: Following the arrest of IPS officer Amrit Paul for his alleged involvement in the police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment scam, Karnataka Assembly Leader Siddaramaiah demanded the resignation of state Home Minister Araga Jnanendra on Tuesday.
On Monday, Paul was arrested by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) for his alleged role in the PSI recruitment scam. Siddaramaiah also accused Jnanendra of being involved in the scandal and urged Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to dismiss him from the cabinet.
"In the PSI recruitment scam, the officials should not be blamed. Home Minister Araga Jnanendra is responsible for this scam as well as officials. I urge Chief Minister to sack Home Minister from the cabinet," Siddaramaiah said.
"Skeletons are falling out one by one from the shelves. The arrest of ADGP Amrit Paul in the PSI recruitment scam is proof of this. What will now CM and the Home Minister will do who said that there was no scandal?" he further stated.
Following Paul's arrest, the Karnataka government suspended him on Monday.
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J Manjunath, former DC of Bengaluru Urban, was also suspended by the Karnataka government after being arrested in a bribery case by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).
The ACB arrested Manjunath four days after he was transferred from his post as Bengaluru urban district deputy commissioner (DC). Manjunath is accused of soliciting bribes from his employees to settle a land dispute.
Earlier on Monday, Bommai slammed the Congress, claiming that the grand old party would have covered up the arrests of ADGP Amrit Paul and IAS official J Manjunath in the PSI recruitment fraud and bribery cases, respectively.
He lauded his government for acting quickly in both cases.
"Our government unearthed the whole case. CID was given a free hand to investigate the case and spare none. ADGP who was heading the recruitment arrested after proof was found against him," he said.
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