A new scandal has hit the Karnataka State Public Service Commission (KPSC) — the State’s premier recruiting agency — even as the government has launched one of the largest recruitment drives to fill up 72,186 posts across departments. The commission has been in the news for the wrong reasons multiple times over the last two decades, and the latest one that has unfolded over the past week involves the commission’s Chairman Shivashankrappa S. Sahukar facing allegations of favouring his daughters in the recruitment to the Department of Industries and Commerce for which examination was conducted by the KPSC. In an unprecedented move, Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot has ordered suspension of Sahukar pending inquiry, who has since questioned it in the High Court of Karnataka. It is alleged that Sahukar neither formally declared a conflict of interest nor recused himself from the recruitment process to ensure transparency as is mandated. It is learnt that some members in the commission did not know of his daughters’ participation and selection in the recruitment process. One of his daughters, who …