Chennai: The CB-CID has arrested one more policeman in connection with the Tamilnadu Public Service Commission (TNPSC) scam.
According to sources, Bhoopathi of Sivagangai was arrested this morning. He is accused of acting as an agent in the exam scam, collecting money from candidates and handing it to main accused Jayakumar.
Police have brought him to the city for an inquiry. Also, K Sithandi of Sivaganagi, a Head Constable who was arrested in connection with the scam on Tuesday, will be questioned at the Egmore CB-CID office.
Sithandi is one of the key accused in the 2017 TNPSC Group IIA forgery. He allegedly helped four of his family members including his wife Shanmugapriya get top ranks and land on government jobs. Shanmugapriya is absconding.
Yesterday, the CB-CID had frozen the bank accounts of a few accused, including those of Sithandi and Jayakumar. Sithandi is a 2008 batch Head Constable attached to Armed Reserve wing in Pudupet.
Yesterday, police arrested four more persons involved in the Group IIA and group IV exam scam. The accused were identified as M J Deepak of Chennai, an employee of he Finance department at the State Secretariat, N Vinod Kumar, a Commercial Tax department employee in Vellore, Arun Balaji of Commercial Tax department in Arcot and S Devi who works in the same department in Nagercoil.
Police teams are searching for Jayakumar in Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. In the Group IV scam, the candidates used a special ink, which disappears after a few hours. Jayakumar then re-shaded it to the right answers.
He allegedly got access to the answer scripts through one H Omkanthan, a Record Clerk of the TNPSC, who is under police custody. The TNPSC banned 99 candidates for life from the Group IV exam.