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SC rejects bail plea of Maharashtra job scam accused

NEW DELHI JULY 15. The Supreme Court today rejected the bail plea of Vishwanath P. Kelkar, former Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Thane, who is an accused in the job scam of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission.

A Bench comprising Justice M.B. Shah and Justice A.R. Lakshmanan rejected the bail plea.

Kelkar, described as a ``middleman'' in the scam, was arrested on June 19 last year and has been in jail ever since.

Acting as a conduit between candidates and the MPSC members, Kelkar is said to have collected huge amounts of money for recruitment of police sub-inspectors, secretariat assistants and sales tax inspectors.

In the multi-crore scam, duplicate sheets with correct answers replaced original answer sheets of candidates who paid the bribe.

The investigating agency has already filed two charge-sheets and one supplementary charge-sheet in the city civil and sessions court against 20 of the 21 people arrested in the case so far.

The probe followed a complaint by the MPSC secretary, Seema Dhamdhere on June 20 last year.

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