Bengaluru May 13: Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sleuths arrested a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DySP) in connection with the Police Sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment scandal in Karnataka.

Deputy SP Shanthakumar was taken into custody after being interrogated for hours the previous day, sources said on Friday. With his arrest, the number of arrests in the Recruitment Division of the police department have now gone up to five.

The sources explained that the Department is now gathering inputs on ADGP-ranked officers based on the information provided by the Shanthakumar.

Shanthakumar had been serving in the recruitment department of the police for the past 10 years. The state government had transferred him after his name surfaced in the PSI recruitment scam. The police officer had joined the Karnataka police as a constable in 1996. Now, questions are being raised about how he rose to the rank of DySP so quickly and spent 10 years in just the recruitment department.

Sources also revealed that further probe into the case will lead to top officers, bureaucrats and politicians involved in the scandal. Further probe into the case is on, police said.