Pramesh S Jain & Yogesh K Porwar
The CID police on Friday sought permission of a court here to conduct narco-analysis test on IPS officer Amrit Paul,arrested in connection with the PSI recruitment scam.
The memo with the request was submitted before the First Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate today.
Since the consent of the accused is required for the narco test, the Magistrate ordered Paul to file his reply and adjourned the hearing to Saturday.
Senior IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police Amrit Paul’s police custody was extended by three days till July 15, by the first
additional chief metropolitan magistrate court.
Paul was produced before the court on Friday and the court has remanded the suspended ADGP to Judicial custody.
The officer was arrested on July 4 in the police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment scam.The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has registered four cases,eight FIRs and arrested 80 people in the PSI recruitment scam.
Paul,who was ADGP-Recruitment,was arrested in the case pertaining to alleged tampering of OMR sheets of candidates,who had reportedly paid money running into lakhs of rupees to clear the examination.
The prosecution informed the court that former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP), Recruitment, Shanta Kumar, who was also arrested in the scam,had handed over Rs 1.3 crore which he had allegedly collected from some PSI aspirants,to some people on Paul’s instructions.
The prosecution also informed the court that the CID needed the senior IPS officer’s custody to recover the said amount.
