PSI Exam Scam: Upset candidates urge former Karnataka CM to take up their cause

Mysuru: Disheartened with the decision of Karnataka government to hold a re-examination for the recruitment for Police Sub-inspectors (PSIs) in the view of a scam unearthed in the appointment of 545 PSIs, the discontented candidates met with the former Chief Minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy and seek his help to press the government to withdraw its decision to conduct the re-examination.

During their meeting with the former CM at MLA SR Mahesh's office, where Kumaraswamy addressed a press conference, candidates urged him to take up their cause with the state government. After meeting the aggrieved candidates and hearing them, the former chief minister is said to have assured them that he will take up their cause with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Karnataka Police (CID), which is investigating the exam conducted in October 2021.
A resident of Jyoti Nagar, Mysuru and a PSI aspirant Tara told a local newspaper, Star of Mysore, that she had given her four years in prepping for the PSI exam and it was not the right decision on government's part to announce a re-exam for everyone after the unearthing of the scam.

She said over 50,000 candidates had appeared in the exam and majority of the candidates who had written the exam with honesty are suffering due to this and are really depressed with the government's order of conducting the exam again for all the candidates. Rather the government should select the candidates based on their merits.