With a spate of communal flare-ups recurring in Karnataka, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said the State would form a committee to control hate speeches in accordance with instructions of the Supreme Court.”We will form a committee to control hate speeches in accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Court,” Bommai told reporters at the Hubballi airport.
The Karnataka government withdrew results to the Police Sub-Inspector (PSI) exams that were held in October last year and admitted that malpractice took place at more than one exam centre. A re-examination will be conducted soon, Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said. On Friday, seven persons, including BJP leader Divya Hagaragi, Jnana Jyothi English Medium School headmaster Kashinath, teachers Archana and Sunanda, a candidate named Shanthi Bai and two others were arrested. Maharashtra businessman Suresh Katgaon was arrested for sheltering Hagaragi.
Former president of the BJP’s Kalaburagi district women’s unit Divya Hagaragi, an accused in the police sub-inspector recruitment exam scam, was among the five people arrested by the Karnataka Police’s Crime Investigation Department (CID) from Solapur in Maharashtra on Friday night. Two of those arrested — Archana S and Sunanda S — were the exam invigilators at the Hagaragi’s school that was one of the exam centres, while remaining two, including a businessman from Maharashtra, were held for sheltering them.
Hagaragi, 41, who is the owner-principal of the Jnana Jyothi English School in Kalaburagi, is accused of facilitating large-scale cheating in the police recruitment exam conducted on October 3, 2021, at the school that was one of the centres.
A local court Thursday handed over H Nagaraj, registrar (evaluation) of Karnatak University Dharwad, to 10-day police custody. Nagaraj was arrested after the arrest of one of his students, Sowmya R, from Mysuru.
The arrests follow a complaint by the Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) that the examination conducted to hire assistant professors held in March this year was compromised. KEA executive director S Ramya had filed a complaint alleging that the Geography question paper was leaked hours before the exam began on March 14.
