Overview

• The Odisha Police Recruitment Board postponed the Oct 5–6 written test after 117 people were detained, prompting protests by candidates in Bhubaneswar.
• Police say 114 aspirants confessed to deals worth about ₹25 lakh each, including a ₹10 lakh advance, and were intercepted en route to a ‘special coaching’ centre in Andhra Pradesh with three suspected brokers.
• The state Crime Branch formally assumed the case under a DGP order and assigned a DSP to lead it, while questioning extended to the owner of Silicon Digitech.
• Documents and party statements describe a contracting chain from ITI Ltd to Silicon Digitech and then to Panchsoft, with investigators naming Shankar Prusty and Muna Mohanty as alleged masterminds who are absconding.
• Opposition parties demanded a CBI inquiry and released photos they say link a prime suspect to BJP leaders, which the BJP rejected as it defended the decision to postpone the exam for transparency.