Pramesh S Jain & Dr B Thomas (Special correspondent)
The CID officials began questioning Amrit Paul on Tuesday to ascertain possible financial transactions between him and his staff linked to the scam.The team even searched his house on Wednesday.
Sources said,Paul confessed to have knowledge about the irregularities in the recruitment during his tenure as ADGP,Recruitment,but refuted the allegations that he has taken money from the candidates.
The senior officials of CID including PS Sandhu, Director general of police (DGP),supervising the investigations and questioning Paul based on the statement of the Deputy superintendent of police, Shanthakumar about the scam.
The questions posed by the CID team is on handing over the key of strong room to Shanthakumar.
The officials are also verifying if any transactions have been made to the account of Paul during the scam.
Paul has denied the allegations that the money collected from the candidates is paid to him.
He has told officials that he should have been more careful in the entire examination process, but due to his negligence and trust on his juniors has led to the scam.
The officials have seized his mobile phone and sent it for experts to retrieve the data.
The CID officials had retrieved data of Shanthakumar and have got few audio clippings, one among them is the audio clipping of someone asking Shanthakumar to take the keys of the strong room and get the work done.
Police are verifying if the audio clipping is the conversation between Shanthakumar and Paul.
It was alleged that around 30 candidates have paid around Rs.30 to Rs.40 lakh each to help them in tampering their OMR sheets and the money was given to Paul. police are now probing the money trail.
