Bhubaneswar: In a major development in the Odisha Police Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment scam, the State Government today terminated the Tier-I empanelment of Silicon Tech Lab Pvt Ltd, a Bhubaneswar-based IT firm .

The action comes weeks after the Crime Branch arrested the firm’s owner, Suresh Nayak, for his alleged role in manipulating the recruitment examination. Silicon Tech Lab had been empanelled under the E&IT Department’s Tier-I category in September 2023.

According to the official notification, the termination was issued for multiple violations of key provisions of the Service Agreement for Empanelment of Software Firms executed with the Odisha Computer Application Centre (OCAC).

The SI recruitment examination was originally awarded to ITI Limited, a central public sector un

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