Overview
- The Department of Personnel and Training on November 11 empowered the CBI to assume the state Crime Branch case and register its own FIR in the police sub-inspector exam scandal.
- The notification allows investigation under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and the Odisha Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024, including attempts, abetments and conspiracies.
- State investigators have arrested more than 120 people, naming Shankar Prusty and Muna Mohanty as alleged masterminds after buses of candidates were intercepted near the Andhra Pradesh border.
- Police say the recruitment was outsourced by the Odisha Police Recruitment Board to ITI Ltd, which contracted Silicon Techlab, which then subcontracted key work to Panchsoft Technologies.
- The CPSE-2024 test for 933 SI posts, scheduled for October 5–6, remains postponed, with police alleging candidates paid about ₹10 lakh upfront and were told to pay an additional ₹15–25 lakh after appointment.