Overview
- DoPT notified that the CBI will take over and supervise the case first registered at the state CID-CB police station in Cuttack on September 30.
- CBI is expected to register a fresh FIR and begin investigation into attempt, instigation and conspiracy linked to the alleged jobs-for-cash racket.
- State Crime Branch actions have led to more than 120 arrests, with reports citing 123 to 125 people held, including several brokers.
- Police say candidates paid about ₹10 lakh upfront with demands for an additional ₹15–25 lakh after appointment to secure sub-inspector posts.
- The exam was run through a chain of contractors from OPRB to PSU ITI Ltd to Silicon Techlab and then Panchsoft, with authorities probing links to Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal; police have named Shankar Prusty of Panchsoft as an alleged mastermind and say he is under arrest.