Following a protracted interrogation of Shankar Prusty, the suspected mastermind of the crime, the Crime Branch detained Silicon Tech owner Suresh Chandra Nayak in the most recent step in the Odisha Police Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment fraud investigation.
Hours after a rigorous interrogation session at the Crime Branch headquarters in Cuttack, when he was presented with crucial evidence and testimony gathered during the investigation into the well-known recruiting scam, Nayak was arrested, according to sources.
As the Crime Branch is ready to request their remand for additional interrogation, Shankar Prusty and Suresh Chandra Nayak are both expected to appear before the Berhampur Vigilance Court today.

The Crime Branch Stricts the Net
The remand of the two will facilitate the Crime Branch's interrogation and could lead to the discovery of the entire scam's operational chain, including financial transactions, software manipulation, and purported political cover-ups.
In front of Muna Mohanty, who was characterised as a close friend and middleman in the scheme, CB detectives had already questioned Prusty on Sunday.
According to reports, Mohanty and Nayak of Silicon Tech served as crucial intermediaries between the primary defendant and a number of applicants who paid hefty fees to be selected for the SI recruitment exam administered by the Odisha Police Recruitment Board (OPRB).
Prusty allegedly alluded to the involvement of powerful people during interrogation, implying that some choices were made in response to pressure from those connected to the former state government.

According to sources, the Crime Branch will probably cross-reference digital documents, money trails, and conversation logs found on confiscated devices in order to confirm these allegations.
Financial and Technical Collusion
According to recent sources, the investigation is currently looking into how the purported syndicate altered the digital systems that were used to administer the hiring test.
According to reports, forensic specialists have been brought in to examine data from the software companies involved, such as Silicon Tech, owned by Nayak, and Panchsoft Technologies, owned by Prusty.
Officials from the Crime Branch believe the suspects altered grades and created fictitious merit lists by manipulating server data and login credentials.

More than 114 applicants are being investigated for allegedly using payments made through intermediaries to get their jobs. According to sources, there were several levels of complicity in the scam, involving officials who had access to private exam data as well as technical service providers.