Overview
- Hundreds of candidates who sat the KPSC exam for 400 Veterinary Officer posts say they found serious irregularities in the final list published on July 17 and lodged a formal complaint with Bengaluru police on July 23 and 24.
- Complainants say middlemen demanded between Rs 70 lakh and Rs 80 lakh per appointment and have submitted alleged audio and video clips and a UPI payment of Rs 2 lakh from a whistleblower as evidence.
- The Vidhana Soudha police have taken up the complaint and begun a probe but have not, as of reporting, registered a public FIR naming individuals or made formal arrests.
- Protesters point to procedural anomalies such as resort‑based tests, improbable marks for some candidates, use of backlog/reservation rules, and selection of relatives of officials; the KPSC chairman was suspended on July 13 over separate nepotism allegations.
- The BJP has demanded the selection list be withheld and a fresh exam or CBI probe, and the case feeds into a wider national debate about the integrity of recruitment and exam bodies that could affect how the state proceeds next.