Overview
- The CBI registered an FIR after a complaint from the Institute of Banking Personnel Selection and on Thursday arrested four operatives linked to an impersonation network that worked across Delhi, Bihar, Haryana and West Bengal, one of whom is a CGST inspector.
- The agency’s Special Task Branch in Mumbai carried out coordinated multi-state searches and says the arrested suspects physically posed as genuine applicants to sit written exams and attend interviews, depriving rightful candidates of jobs.
- In a separate probe handled by the CBI’s Bhopal anti-corruption unit, officers verified a contractor’s complaint and laid a trap on October 7 that led to the arrest of Kendriya Vidyalaya principal Shraddha Pathak and a middleman for allegedly taking Rs 3 lakh to release pending bills.
- The bribery case concerns payments routed through the Government e-Marketplace for renovation work with pending bills of about Rs 8 lakh and resulted in searches and seizure of documents from the accused’s residential and office premises.
- Investigations remain active as the CBI seeks to identify additional participants, evidence and links between networks, and the cases highlight immediate pressures on IBPS, schools and GeM processes to strengthen identity checks and payment oversight.