KPSC Scam Probe Takes Dramatic Twist: 2016-Batch IAS Officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar Goes Missing After Reaching Bengaluru Airport

Bengaluru: The Bengaluru police are on the look out for 2016 batch IAS officer, who has gone absconding since Aug 20, afternoon.

Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar, the present Managing Director of MSME (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) is said to be missing from Kempegowda  International Airport, from where he had purchased a flight ticket to New Delhi on Indigo Airlines using his HDFC credit card by paying ₹ 30,253.

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The city police, who are searching for him have reported to the Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh that his mobile had been switched off since he reached the airport and his further whereabouts were not known. It is not immediately known if he had boarded the flight or not, since he had purchased the ticket just one and a half hours before the flight departed.

Interestingly, Gyanendra Kumar missing has raised many doubts as he had worked earlier with the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) as examination controller. The ongoing row over the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) scam is taking a new twist everyday, especially after the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) raided the tainted Chairman and other officials. After the ED raid, which lasted for over 46 hours in over 18 premises of the State, new names in the scam started coming out.

The first two complaints against the Chairman were selecting his two daughters as Industrial Extension Officers, without declaring that they were his children. Besides, his daughters had submitted false income certificates saying that their family income was only ₹ 40,000 per annum.

Soon after the first controversy broke out, the veterinary doctors recruitment scam came to fore. The candidates were asked to pay ₹ 80 lakh per post for selection and the candidates who were willing to pay were given question papers in advance and were given two day training in a resort in the outskirts of the city to solve the papers.

The government had formed SIT to probe into the allegations. The ED raids not only confirmed the allegations, but also revealed that the examination papers were leaked in the earlier recruitment process also. The ED has given a list of examinations when the question papers were leaked and the people involved in it.

Based on the ED information, the SIT started registering fresh FIRs, including against some of the officers who had worked with KPSC earlier. That included senior officer Shantha Kumari, who was taken for questioning on Aug 20, morning.

An hour after the SIT took Shantha Kumari for questioning, Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar booked a ticket to Delhi with Indigo Airlines. His mobile location shows reaching KIA and switching off at the airport. Since then, his whereabouts are not known.