Top court orders trial of candidates for forgery in KPSC scam

New Delhi/Bengaluru: The Supreme Court on Friday communicated its anguish over the grieved condition of undertaking in Karnataka where even individuals involving constitutional posts, for example, the KPSC director confronted trial for misrepresentation and swindling in the selection of candidates for government posts.

A bench of Justices Ranjan Gogoi and R Banumathi said “The (former) administrator of the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) is confronting a criminal trial. What has this nation come up to,” 

The court made its oral remarks while requesting trial of Karnataka Administrative Service officers Asha Parveen S M and Salma Firdose (both from 1998 group), and KSPC staff K Narasimha and M B Banakar (both from 2004) and P Gopi Krishna, individual collaborator to Dr H N Krishna, at that point KPSC part who later moved toward becoming the chairman. 

The state government battled that the HC’s order subduing the whole criminal proceedings, relating to the offence of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy, among others, against the accused had resulted in grave miscarriage of justice.

The court dismissed a plea made by senior supporter Basava Prabhu Patil, speaking to Asha and others, who fought that the way that they had a place with Muslim in backward category was not disputed.

Supporter Joseph Aristotle, showing up for the state government, presented that the forensic report sent by the Hyderabad lab demonstrated that there was fudging in their caste certificates. 

“It is an intense charge. The issue ought to be analyzed in the trial. The second arrangement of scientific reports unmistakably expressed it was not the mark of the official who was said to have issued the endorsement,” the seat said. 

Aristotle likewise pointed that the Bengaluru lab official who gave wrong forensic report confronted the adverse procedures. 

“We have inspected the issue. It is viewed as a fit case for trial, which will initiate now and close as quickly as could reasonably be expected,” the seat requested. 

The case against the denounced was enlisted in the Vidhan Soudha police headquarters on August 11, 2011, based on the examination led by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). The enquiry was requested by the HC into the abnormalities in the enlistment procedure of Group An and B officers by the KPSC in 1998, 1999 and 2004. 

In addition, the five denounced, the charge sheet was additionally documented against Krishna, who later turned into the KPSC administrator. The state government battled that the HC had on March 17, 2016, expelled a comparative supplication for suppress of the procedures against Krishna. Hence, the pinnacle court too had rejected an extraordinary leave appeal to by Krishna against the HC’s request. 

Asha and Salma were chosen to the posts of tahsildar and assistant registrar of cooperative societies respectively.