Overview
- Justice M. Nagaprasanna said allegations that the KPSC selection of 400 veterinary officers may be a “systematic assault” on public employment were serious enough to seek the State’s response after a July 29 hearing.
- The petition by aspirant Manjunath follows an FIR at Vidhana Soudha and the State’s decision to hand the case to the Karnataka CID, prompting the call for a central CBI inquiry because of low confidence in past CID probes.
- The court directed the Special Public Prosecutor to explain why the CID should retain the case and ordered that the entire investigation record and all material gathered so far be placed before the court.
- Respondents must file objections by August 7 and the court stayed any coercive action against the petitioner until the next hearing, keeping open the practical path to a CBI takeover of the probe.
- If the allegations of pre-exam access to confidential papers, OMR manipulation, candidate accommodation with phones switched off, and middlemen selling appointments prove true the case could prompt wider reforms to how state recruitment exams are run and supervised.