Bhubaneswar: In a major breakthrough in the police sub-inspector (SI) recruitment examination scam, Crime Branch of Odisha Police on Saturday arrested the alleged mastermind, Shankar Prusty, near Nepal border area in Uttarakhand.

According to sources, he was nabbed near Nepal border while trying to return to India through Uttarakhand. It was earlier reported that he might have fled to Dubai to evade arrest. ADVERTISEMENT

Prusty had managed flee Odisha and travelled to Nepal via Delhi soon after the scam 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 Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB), according to reports, had outsourced the conduct of the Combined Police Serv

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