The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the various petitions that alleged a paper leak in the Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) exam and refused to stop the Bihar Public Service Commission bodies exam Mains starting April 25. Justices Dipankar Datta and Manmohan sat on a bench to direct that all candidates cannot be mandatorily re-examined, as there was not enough evidence provided.
The petitioners were presented with digital evidence, including WhatsApp messages and video clips, which were purported to show that the preliminary exam questions were leaked before the exam and that many candidates are likely to have cheated. In a video she had posted, she pointed out that someone was answering through loudspeakers at an examination centre. But the Supreme Court was not swayed, finding that the evidence did not make it crystal clear that malpractice was widespread.
The decision was made by the court after the Patna High Court’s verdict addressing the appeals that had been rejected on the ground of the absence of proof of repeated irregularities in several centres. BPSA had taken the High Court’s permission to go on with the Mains examination, as no substantial reasons for deletion of the preliminary round were put forward.
On January 7, an earlier plea on alleged irregularities in the POA preliminary exam held on December 13 of last year was also rejected by a bench of Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna of the Supreme Court. The Patna High Court had advised the bench that the petitioners could take their grievance to the court.
Aspirants were opposing the exam with their demand to cancel the December 13 exam and demanding that the exam be held only in January. Demonstrators were also accused of police using force against them. In reply, the BPSC had retested some on January 4 at 22 centres in Patna. In spite of that, the Mains examination will now proceed as scheduled on 25 April.
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