UP Public Service Commission to Allahabad High Court

The Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) on Monday informed the Allahabad High Court that it has found five officials guilty and suspended three of them while it is investigating unfair means adopted in the UP Judicial Service Civil Judge (Junior Division) Examination, 2022.(Shravan Pandey v. State of Uttar Pradesh and others).

As per the affidavit filed by UPPSC, around 50 answer sheets of candidates who appeared for the August 2023 mains examination have been exchanged.

According to sources, the jury Saumitra Dayal Singh AND Anish Kumar Gupta On July 1, he ordered the Chairman of the State Commission to file another statement because the previous one filed by the Deputy Secretary did not contain all the information.

The court also ordered that the new affidavit should detail the status of the ongoing investigation, the number of answer sheets found and how the results will be managed.

The next meeting on this matter will be held on July 8.

Advocates Vibhu Rai and Dhananjai Rai appeared on behalf of the plaintiff.

Advocate Nisheeth Yadav represented UPPCS.

The 2022 exam was announced in December. The entrance exams were conducted in February 2023, followed by the main exam in May. This was followed by interviews and the final results were announced in August 2023. Furthermore, the marks obtained by the candidates were released in November 2023.

Dissatisfied with the marks awarded to him, the complainant Shravan Pandey filed an application under the Right to Information Act (RTI Act) in January 2024 seeking detailed information about the distribution of marks in six papers.

When he learned that he had scored only 47 out of 200 in the English examination, he prayed that he would also be shown the answer sheets.

When he went through the answer sheets, he found that his handwriting was not there. He also found that the answers in the Hindi answer sheet were ‘punched’ on the last 3-4 pages. This prompted Pandey to approach the Supreme Court.

During the previous hearing, the Supreme Court had directed the State Board to provide candidate Pandey with the answer sheets of all the six exams so that his handwriting could be compared.

The commission later informed the Supreme Court that it was looking into an allegation by one of the candidates that his answer sheets were tampered with.