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Bihar SSC chairman arrested in recruitment scam

The Bihar government had on February 8 last cancelled the BSSC examination

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Satyavrat Mishra Patna
Senior IAS officer and Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) chairman Sudhir Kumar was arrested by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday in connection with the recruitment examination scam of third grade clerical positions.

"SIT has arrested BSSC chairman Sudhir Kumar and four others, including his brother, sister-in-law and two of his nephew, in connection with the scam," Patna Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Manu Maharaaj told newsmen after questioning Kumar for hours. Maharaaj is also heading the special team constituted on the orders of the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to investigate the matter.

"We arrested Kumar on the basis of concrete