Today the Hon’ble CJ and Hon’ble Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy appointed Hon’ble Justice Authinathan and one IGP as a committee to investigate allegations of widespread malpractice and copying in the online selection exam held to the post of computer instructors in 2019. Earlier Single Judge Hon’ble Justice R. Parthiban had restricted the scope of the committee to three centres alone. The Hon’ble CJ bench empowered them to summon CCTV footage and also speak to the candidates.

Today the Hon’ble CJ and Hon’ble Justice Senthilkumar Ramamoorthy appointed Hon’ble Justice Authinathan and one IGP as a committee to investigate allegations of widespread malpractice and copying in the online selection exam held to the post of computer instructors in 2019. Earlier Single Judge Hon’ble Justice R. Parthiban had restricted the scope of the committee to three centres alone. The Hon’ble CJ bench empowered them to summon CCTV footage and also speak to the candidates.

counsel for the Appellants Richardson Wilson had earlier pointed out to the bench that out of the 742 selected candidates from 119 centres across the State, 363 Candidates are from one centre. This shows that candidates in that centre were somehow favoured. Further there were allegations of mass copying in several other centres also for which the state said no CCTV footage was available.

Ld. AG appeared for the State