TNPSC job scam: HC issues notice to prime accused
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:
The Madras high court on Friday ordered notice to Sam Rajeswaran, the prime accused in the TNPSC Group-I officers recruitment scam, on a plea moved by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) to revoke the anticipatory bail granted to him by a vacation judge in May.
Admitting the plea moved by the CCB, Justice M Dhandapani directed Rajeswaran to file his reply by August 20.
The CCB, in the remand application for TNPSC section officer Kasi Ram Kumar, stated that of the 74 Group-1 officers selected after 2016 examinations, 62 were from Apollo Study Centre run by Rajeswaran. Most recruits, however, could not join duty, as the high court barred allotting postings to the ‘selected’ candidates till the case reached its conclusion.
On May 16, a city sessions court granted bail to Rajeswaran, who apprehended arrest in connection with the scam. Hewasdirected nottoleaveIndia without the permission of the court.
The prosecution lodged a ‘strong objection’ before the trial court against granting anticipatory bail to Rajeswaran and argued that the high court had already given a go-ahead to the CCB and that the probe was proceeding in the right manner.
However, the trial court allowed the bail application concurring with the submission of Rajeswaran’s counsel that the CCB had not recovered a single document against the petitioner so far, despite the arrest of four TNPSC section officers.
According to the CCB’s April 26 remand application seeking judicial custody of Kasi, Kasi confessed to conspiring with Rajeswaran to commit the offence. The application said Kasi was arrested based on the evidence seized during a raid at Apollo Study Centre on January 28.
The information from various documents, phone numbers, and model question papers seized from the centre revealed a clear picture of the crime and its modus operandi including the illegal favours by section officer Kasi for Rajeswaran, the remand memo said.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:
The Madras high court on Friday ordered notice to Sam Rajeswaran, the prime accused in the TNPSC Group-I officers recruitment scam, on a plea moved by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) to revoke the anticipatory bail granted to him by a vacation judge in May.
Admitting the plea moved by the CCB, Justice M Dhandapani directed Rajeswaran to file his reply by August 20.
The CCB, in the remand application for TNPSC section officer Kasi Ram Kumar, stated that of the 74 Group-1 officers selected after 2016 examinations, 62 were from Apollo Study Centre run by Rajeswaran. Most recruits, however, could not join duty, as the high court barred allotting postings to the ‘selected’ candidates till the case reached its conclusion.
On May 16, a city sessions court granted bail to Rajeswaran, who apprehended arrest in connection with the scam. Hewasdirected nottoleaveIndia without the permission of the court.
The prosecution lodged a ‘strong objection’ before the trial court against granting anticipatory bail to Rajeswaran and argued that the high court had already given a go-ahead to the CCB and that the probe was proceeding in the right manner.
However, the trial court allowed the bail application concurring with the submission of Rajeswaran’s counsel that the CCB had not recovered a single document against the petitioner so far, despite the arrest of four TNPSC section officers.
According to the CCB’s April 26 remand application seeking judicial custody of Kasi, Kasi confessed to conspiring with Rajeswaran to commit the offence. The application said Kasi was arrested based on the evidence seized during a raid at Apollo Study Centre on January 28.
The information from various documents, phone numbers, and model question papers seized from the centre revealed a clear picture of the crime and its modus operandi including the illegal favours by section officer Kasi for Rajeswaran, the remand memo said.
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