The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at nine locations across the state on Friday in connection with a money laundering probe linked to the Odisha Police Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment paper leak case, an official said.
The Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB) had outsourced the examination process to ITI Ltd, a government-run company based in Kolkata. ITI subsequently awarded the work to Bhubaneswar-based Silicon Techlab Private Ltd, which further subcontracted it to Panchsoft Technologies Private Ltd. The police officers were led to believe that packet number 5, which contained the board-finalised master question set, had been handed over for printing.
Last month, commission chairman and former Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Rashmi Ranjan Swain said the commission was taking steps to expedite the SI recruitment examination.
Following the leak, the Odisha government constituted the Odisha Uniformed Services Staff Selection Commission in November last year to take over recruitment for uniformed services, including the police and excise departments.
In total, the CBI charge sheet filed in December last year named 122 individuals, including over 100 candidates. The raids targeted premises linked to key accused, including alleged middleman Muna Mohanty, PanchSoft Technologies’ Shankar Prusty, and Silicon Techlab managing director Suresh Nayak, who have been named in a charge sheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
