Firoz.T.Totanawala The Bangalore Metro Reporter CID ON THE GO WILL THE SKELETONS TUMBLE OUT FROM KPSC CUPBOARD?

By Firoz.T.Totanawala 

 The Bangalore Metro Reporter 

 CID ON THE GO! 

 WILL THE SKELETONS TUMBLE OUT FROM KPSC CUPBOARD? 

 Aftermath the release of former KPSC Chairman H.N.Krishna from jail on bail, the CID has taken the investigations in all its seriousness. It has further arrested three PA’s and are being grilled. One can not discount the possibilities of few Members getting arrested along with many staff. H N Krishna’s arrest has opened the Pandora’s Box and one can be sure of many more frauds seeing the light of the day before the CID wraps up the investigations.... 

 After spending more than a month in the Parappana Agrahara Jail, former Chairman of the KPSC H N Krishna was granted bail by the High Court. At the same time, the CID which is probing the KAS selection fraud has speeded up its investigations. With the CID officials camping at the KPSC office, there is a fear psychosis among the KPSC officials and also some former Members who sold selections during Krishna regime from their quota. Obviously, the officials and former members are shivering in their pants with the searching questions by the CID. 

 The other day, the CID arrested three officials - Narasimha and Banakar, both PA to Members and Gopikrishna, the PA to Krishna and now Private Secretary to Chairman Gonal Bheemappa. Among them, Gopikrishna has been working as the PA to the Members for the last 20 years and even after getting three promotions, he has not stirred out of the Personal Sections of the Members. 

 M N Gururaj alias M. N. Gururaja Rao, presently the Asst. Secretary is not to be forgotten. Having worked in the Establishment section from the date of his joining duty, he has not stirred out of the Establishment Section even after getting promotion as Asst. Secretary. He has established his octopus like hold in the KPSC. He has also got his daughter Rashmi selected as Tahsildar! He has held sway over the personnel in the Confidential Branch where much of the important process in selection takes place. It is the officials from Confidential Branch who are privy to most of the secret deals. 

 CID also has an option to deeply grill two officials which consequently will unearth bigger frauds. Te two officials are P. R. Ganapathy, who worked as PA to Secretary for more than two decades was re-appointed after his retirement. Another is Arunachalam, who worked in Confidential Branch was re-appointed and given the same post. 

 More than anything, the CID should probe Gururaj’s real estate business he is doing through Lokseva Housing Society. The Lokseva HCS meant for KPSC officials, has outlived its utility after most of its members were given sites. But Gururaj, who is the Secretary and uses the name of M N Gururaja instead of his official name M N Gururaja Rao, is still forming layouts to sell the sites to public at the market rates. Allegedly, he has converted this Co-op. Society into his personal real estate firm. Why go far, he had gifted a site to his brother M N Nagaraja Rao, who is alleged to have sold it for Rs. 50 lakhs recently to avoid embarrassment with the CID probe. 

 It is to be recalled that M N Gururaj is a highly linked official in the corridors of power and is very close to some senior IAS and IPS officials in the state. It is only after the High Court’s stricture; the CID swung into action and arrested Krishna and the DIG of the CID is personally supervising the investigations. 

 Whatsoever, the CID probe should not be limited to the KAS selection fraud. It can go deeper and bring out skeletons in the cup boards of KPSC. The H N Krishna episode is only the tip of the iceberg. 

That is all.