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70th BPSC Exam: CCTV footage from Bapu exam complex shows candidates snatching question papers from invigilators and walking out.
70th BPSC Exam: BPSC Chairman Parmar Ravi Manubhai addressed a press conference regarding the alleged paper leak.
Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) on Monday ordered re-examination for around 6,500 candidates who took the competitive exam last week at a center in Patna where protests had erupted over the alleged question paper leak.
On December 13, during the ruckus created by a section of candidates, an officer on duty at the examination center also died of a heart attack.
BPSC Chairman Ravi Manubhai Parmar, while making the announcement, also clarified that the re-examination is being ordered only for those who appeared at the Bapu Exam Complex, which was one of the more than 900 centers across the state. Where the examinations were conducted. 13 December.
BPSC had conducted the Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination (CCE) on that day. Around 5 lakh candidates appeared in the examination conducted for recruitment to Group A and B posts.
“We are canceling the examinations of Bapu Examination Complex. “Fresh dates for about 6,500 candidates will be announced at the appropriate time,” the Speaker told reporters here.
He also said that whoever is found involved in disrupting the examination will be barred from appearing in any future examination by the Commission.
“So far 30-40 such people have been identified and police are working to identify others,” he said.
The announcement comes a day after the district administration submitted a strongly worded inquiry report before the commission, blaming the ruckus on “a group of anti-social elements posing as examinees… who caused some disruption”. are bent on producing, which may lead to cancellation.” “Of examinations.
The report took a serious stance on the death of an officer on duty at the examination centre, who suffered a heart attack but could not be taken to hospital in time due to protests, as well as accusing those found involved of murder. evoked set. Guilty of unruly behavior.
“The examinations were conducted in a free and fair manner at more than 900 centres, where around five lakh candidates appeared on December 13,” the BPSC chairman said. He said, “BPSC’s CCE 70th preliminary exam was conducted in a single shift from noon to 2 pm. The exam was conducted at 912 centers across the state, and free and fair examination was conducted at 911 of them “
However, CCTV footage from the Bapu examination complex showed that some candidates snatched the question papers from the invigilators and ran out of the examination hall shouting that the paper had been leaked, he said.
“Snatching question papers from invigilators and showing them to outsiders is tantamount to looting public property. “Police action will be initiated against these people who have acted as part of a conspiracy,” he said.
Patna District Magistrate Chandrashekhar Singh said on Sunday that the police have so far registered two FIRs in this regard.
(This story has not been edited by AyraNews24x7 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – PTI,
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