HYDERABAD: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) probing the sub-inspectors (SI) recruitment scam believe that there are 15 more SIs working across the state who used impersonators to clear their examinations.On Wednesday, the CID sleuths arrested five SIs working in different police stations in Hyderabad and Khammam who cheated in their recruitment exam using impersonators.According to additional DGP, CID, SV Ramana Murthy, it all started in 2009 when a case was registered in Nalgonda district against a home guard, G Saidulu and a dismissed constable Ravi Kumar, who had collected huge amounts of money from some candidates appearing for selection as police constables, promising to arrange for their selection and cheated them.The interrogation of the two policemen led investigators to unearth a major scam. Subsequently, a separate case was registered against nine candidates who had indulged in cheating, malpractice and unfair means in the written tests for police constables conducted by the state level police recruitment board in 2009.The case was then transferred to the CID and it came to light that five persons had indulged in malpractice including impersonation in the written examinations to get selected as sub-inspectors.“The candidates had got their photographs on the hall tickets changed with the help of the owner of a photo studio in Kodad in Nalgonda district and also engaged other persons to write examinations on their behalf,” Ramana Murthy said.The five arrested are - S Linga Rao, probationary SI in Jubilee Hills police station, S Chinna Gopal Krishna, SI in Mangalhat police station, V Venkateshwarulu, probationary SI in Market Police station, V Nageshwar Rao, SI in VR Puram, Khammam and D Srinivas Rao, SI in Dummagudem police station, Khammam. “The handwritings of the original candidates and impersonators were compared at Forensic Science Lab and it was confirmed that the accused had cheated,” the CID chief said.
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