HC quashes revised PT results.

Source – dailypioneer.com

In a major decision, the Jharkhand High Court on Monday asked the Jharkhand Public Service Commission to revise the Preliminary Test (PT) results of the 6th Combined Civil Services examination held in the year 2016.

As per the court orders only 6,103 aspirants clearing the PT in the first PT results published will be considered to be eligible for mains examinations, which have already been taken by about 30,000 aspirants.

The bench of Acting Chief Justice HC Mishra and Justice Deepak Roshan pronounced the order on Monday quashing the State government resolution issued on February 12, 2018 and the revised results announced by JPSC on August 06, 2018 declaring 34, 634 candidates as successful. The court also directed the JPSC to publish the Mains examination results confined to the candidates declared successful in the first result of PT published on August 11, 2017.

Notably, the PT results were revised three times after the examination was conducted in the year 2016. Initially, the commission declared 5,400 candidates successful. However, months later it revised the results and declared 6100 candidates successful.

The mains test, supposed to be conducted on January 29, 2018, had to be postponed by a year after some candidates approached the High Court with a plea citing incompliance of the reservation roaster in the prelims test.

Taking cognizance of the plea, the State government constituted a committee headed by State Revenue and Land reforms Minister Amar Bauri to look into the matter. In August last year the JPSC again issued fresh results declaring 34,634 candidates eligible for the Mains examination. The number of candidates who cleared the Prelims was about 106 times the available 326 vacancies and that became the bone of contention.

 Aspirants alleged that as per rules, the number of successful candidates in Prelims should not exceed 15 times the total number of available vacancies. The High Court had put a stay on publication of results till the decision in the cases pending before it. One Pankaj Kumar Pandey had filed a plea in the High Court alleging that the JPSC has changed rules and conditions of the examination after the examination process had started. It was alleged that on government order and other rules minimum cut off marks were changed and thus the results were also revised.

On the other hand the government had said that keeping the interest of students, it issued such order. The court had kept its decision reserved after final hearing on September 17.

HC counsel Subhashish Soren said that the court has quashed the notification of the government and the revised results issued on February 12, 2018 and has asked the JPSC to publish Mains results on the basis of the first PT results published by it.