KALABURAGI: An assistant engineer within the irrigation division, who's accused of being concerned within the police sub-inspectors’ recruitment rip-off, voluntarily surrendered earlier than the Legal Investigation Division (CID) in Kalaburagi on Sunday.
Manjunath Melkundi got here in an auto to the CID workplace at Aiwan-E-Shahi guesthouse and gave himself as much as the particular department of the police which is investigating the rip-off. A courtroom had issued an arrest warrant for Melkundi a number of days in the past.
Previous to coming into the CID workplace, Melkundi insisted that he's harmless, and instructed reporters that he was ailing and recuperating in Mangaluru. He claimed he's “unaware” of the case, that he's “not concerned within the rip-off” and surrendered “solely as a result of his title was dragged into the case”. Melkundi’s give up comes sizzling on the heels of CID sleuths nabbing Divya Hagaragi, the primary accused in Pune, Maharashtra on Friday. Hagaragi, a BJP functionary, had been on the run for 18 days.
To this point, together with Melkundi, police have arrested 17 folks in reference to the rip-off, whereas Amrut Paul, further director common of police, underneath whose watch the rip-off befell, was transferred out of the recruitment wing. The written examination to fill 545 PSI posts was held in October final yr and a complete 54,289 candidates had taken the take a look at.