Berhampur: After spending a month behind bars, 114 aspirants, who were arrested for the jobs-for-cash scam in the police sub-inspector recruitment examination, walked out of Berhampur Circle Jail on Thursday.

A Special Vigilance Court here had granted these job-seekers, who had colluded with the scammers to pass the test, conditional bail the previous day. ADVERTISEMENT

A total of 123 people have so far been arrested in connection with the scam, which came to the fore after Berhampur Police intercepted three buses near the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border on September 30 and detained 117 people, including three agents. The case was later handed over to the CID-Crime Branch, which arrested six others, including the alleged mastermind Munna Mohanty, who perpetrated the scam by luring the aspi

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