ED opens a locked Jayamahal flat and a Bareilly ancestral house of the IAS officer who ran KPSC’s veterinary exam.

The Enforcement Directorate on Sunday, 23 August 2026, searched residential premises linked to Indian Administrative Service officer Gyanendra Kumar Gangwar in Bengaluru and in Bareilly under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The searches sit inside the Karnataka Public Service Commission veterinary-officer recruitment probe. Searches are investigative steps. They are not a charge-sheet finding and they are not a conviction.

Gangwar is a 2016-batch Karnataka-cadre officer. He was formerly Controller of Examinations at the Karnataka Public Service Commission for the veterinary-officer examination. He is currently Director for micro, small and medium enterprises in the Commerce and Industries Department. Public reporting on Sunday carried no confirmed information that he himself accepted bribes. His role is under scrutiny because of the exam-controller posting. This desk will keep that distinction. Scrutiny of a posting is not a proved bribe-taking charge.

The agency had earlier searched former Karnataka Public Service Commission chairman Shivashankarappa Sahukar and premises linked to veterinary officers. First Commission-linked searches were reported on 18 August; member Shanta Hosamani was also named in those earlier accounts. Officials are investigating allegations that candidates were asked to pay between ₹70 lakh and ₹80 lakh for appointments. That payment range is an allegation under probe. It is not a proved tariff, and Gangwar is not named on this tip as the person who took those sums.

In Bengaluru, an Enforcement Directorate team arrived in three vehicles with Central Reserve Police Force personnel at an apartment near Jayamahal. The flat was locked. Gangwar was not present. His phone was said to be switched off. After a wait of about two to three hours, a locksmith opened the door with a duplicate key, with a neighbour and police as witnesses. In Bareilly, the ancestral house searched is at Himkarpur, Chamarua, in Nawabganj. Those are the two geographies on Sunday’s card.

Karnataka Home Minister Priyank Kharge said Gangwar had gone to Uttar Pradesh to meet an ailing father after being out of contact for about two days. A minister’s explanation of absence is not a clearance of the money-laundering file. Form B and any poll date are not notified on this story.

Bengaluru’s Jayamahal flat and Bareilly’s Himkarpur house are the search addresses. The veterinary-officer recruitment file is the predicate trail. Until the Enforcement Directorate writes a further paper and a court tests it, the public ledger is Sunday’s dual-city Prevention of Money Laundering Act searches, a 2016-batch officer whose exam-controller role is under scrutiny without a confirmed bribe-taking finding on this tip, earlier searches of a former Commission chairman and a member, and an alleged ₹70 lakh to ₹80 lakh per-post payment range still only as allegation. Every line remains under investigation.