Bengaluru, November 14 — The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed its chargesheet in the alleged Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) recruitment scam before a special court in Bengaluru, naming four accused, including former KPSC chairman Shivashankarappa Sahukar and jailed IAS officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar, officials said on Saturday. The allegations have not been proved.

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The chargesheet runs to 8,400 pages, IANS reported. According to the details placed before the court, the ED has recorded the statements of more than 50 witnesses, including candidates and their parents, and has relied on CCTV footage and candidates' statements, IANS reported. Mirror Now reported that the witnesses also include employees of a resort at Devanahalli, and that the complaint details gold and diamond jewellery worth about Rs 52 lakh allegedly bought for a close associate of Gangwar.

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4Accused named in the ED chargesheet, IANS reported
400Veterinary Officer posts in the January 2026 KPSC examination at the centre of the case
50+Witnesses whose statements the ED recorded, IANS reported
Rs 1.22 croreProperties provisionally attached by the ED on November 13, the agency said

The case centres on the January 2026 examination for 400 Veterinary Officer posts. In its statement on the November 13 attachment, the ED said Gangwar, the then Controller of Examinations at KPSC, allegedly leaked the question papers, with the correct answers, to his close associate Basavaraj Kannale on January 7, 2026, and that Kannale allegedly circulated them among 10 candidates at villas on the outskirts of Bengaluru on January 8, a day before the examination, demanding illegal gratification of Rs 20 lakh to Rs 40 lakh. The ED said the OMR answer sheets of these candidates matched the initial answer key published by the KPSC, including answers later found to be incorrect in the revised answer key.

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IANS reported that question papers and answer keys of around 80 questions were allegedly leaked and that selected candidates were taken to private resorts or gated communities a day before the examination to memorise the answers, with candidates reportedly charged between Rs 20 lakh and Rs 80 lakh. The fourth accused, former KPSC member B. V. Geetha, has recently been granted bail by a special court, IANS reported. These are allegations that the trial will test.

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The filing is the next major step after two earlier developments Awaaz Punjab has reported: Gangwar's arrest on August 29 in the alleged paper-leak case, and the Karnataka government's grant of prosecution sanction against him on October 24. Separately, on November 13 the ED provisionally attached movable and immovable properties worth Rs 1.22 crore belonging to Sahukar, Geetha and Gangwar under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, the agency said.

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The special court will now decide on taking cognisance of the chargesheet, after which the trial process begins; the accused are presumed innocent unless proved guilty. IANS also reported that Chief Minister D. K. Shivakumar has ordered election-style security and strict anti-malpractice protocols for the KPSC's Gazetted Probationers (KAS) preliminary examination scheduled for November 15.

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