HC seeks report on TNPSC exam scam
Observing that prima facie the anomalies and peculiar distribution of the successful candidates arouses suspicion, a division bench of Chief Justice Sanjib Banerjee and justice R Hemalatha said the allegations should be looked into by the chief secretary.
The judges directed that all papers and documents pertaining to the selection process must be kept preserved and the chairperson of TNPSC would be personally liable if a page from an answer script or any other document pertaining to the process goes missing.
The court was hearing a petition filed by I Mohamed Razvi, a resident of Ramanathapuram district. The petitioner stated that lakhs of candidates appeared for the TNPSC group IV exam which was conducted in September 2019. After the results were published, TNPSC filed a complaint before the CB-CID director general of police on suspicion that 99 candidates indulged in malpractice to clear the exam.
Based on the complaint, a probe was ordered by forming special teams. He stated that the CB-CID sleuths who arrested a few people in connection with the scam found out that the candidates who were involved in the malpractice and used pens with evaporative ink to mark the answers and the same was corrected by the corrupt officials.
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