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CoD arrests accused in teacher recruitment racket

Staff Reporter

The accused were absconding for
two years
63 cases registered against the accused

BANGALORE: The Corps of Detectives (CoD) has arrested Basavaraj R. Bidadalli (43), the prime accused in the fake teacher recruitment racket of 2004-05, who had been absconding for the past two years after jumping bail.

The police said Basavaraj of Sorab taluk in Shimoga district is accused in 63 cases registered in various police stations in regard to the teacher recruitment racket. After the CoD officials arrested him in October 2005, Basavaraj had come out on bail and was absconding, according to a press release from the CoD.

On September 8, inspector G.R. Shiva Murthy of CoD’s Fraud Investigation Cell arrested Basavaraj near Cubbon Park, according to a press release from Director-General of Police (CoD) Ajai Kumar Singh.

Basavaraj, an employee of the Education Department, and his accomplices had allegedly taken lakhs of rupees from 63 people, created fake documents and ensured that they were appointed as teachers in government primary and high schools.

The fake documents said the 63 teachers were transferred from schools in north Karnataka districts to those in Bangalore Rural district.

In connivance with the Education Department officials, the accused had ensured that the fake teachers reported to work at schools in Bangalore Rural district, the police said.

After the fraud came to light, 63 cases were registered against Basavaraj and his accomplices in Kanakapura, Harohalli, Sathnur, Kodihalli, Ramanagara, Devanahalli and Nandagudi police stations in the undivided Bangalore Rural district. Subsequently, the State Government ordered a CoD probe into all these 63 cases registered during 2004-05.

The CoD officials had arrested Basavaraj, his accomplice Mahantesh Patil, 13 officials of the Education Department and 53 people who were appointed as teachers on the strength of fake documents.

According to police, Basavaraj himself had got a job as first division assistant in the Education Department by creating fake documents. He had joined the department as a Group D employee in 1984 and quit the job a year later.

In 1994, he learnt that a government primary school teacher in Hirekerur in Haveri district had died while in service. The teacher’s children were still minors and were not eligible to get a job on compassionate grounds. Basavaraj created fake documents that he was the dead teacher’s brother-in-law and got a job on compassionate grounds, the police said.

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