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Bengaluru: The Supreme Court has reserved its order on a challenge to Karnataka high court’s refusal to entertain a 2022 PIL against a state law validating the recruitment of 362 gazetted probationers by Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) in 2011. Sahukar, Geeta sent to 14-day judicial custody A special court in Bengaluru Monday remanded suspended KPSC chairperson Shivashankarappa Sahukar and member BV Geeta in judicial custody for 14 days. Enforcement Directorate had on Oct 6 arrested the two for alleged involvement in the job-for-cash scam.
CID has sought govt sanction to prosecute suspended IAS officer Gangwar, arrested over his alleged involvement in leaking questions for a KPSC recruitment exam. The move follows SC’s recent direction to the SIT to continue its probe along the lines of the CID investigation. On Monday afternoon, ED sleuths produced Sahukar and Geeta before the special court and later took them to Bengaluru central prison in a police jeep.