The Jharkhand High Court has stayed the final result of the JGGLCCE examination conducted by the State Staff Selection Commission (JSSC) in September. The court ordered the government to ensure that the police register an FIR and investigate the complaint of question paper leak by the candidates. A division bench of Chief Justice M.S. Ramachandra Rao and Justice Deepak Roshan heard a PIL filed by Prakash Kumar. The court has also ordered the police to submit a report in this matter. The next hearing of this case will be on January 22 next year.

Jharkhand General Graduate Level Combined Competitive Examination (JGGLCCE) was organized on 21 and 22 September. 3.04 lakh candidates appeared in this examination. Government junior level posts were to be recruited through this recruitment examination. But some candidates protested against it alleging large scale irregularities in the examination. 

Demand for CBI investigation

In fact, in this case, a person named Rajesh Prasad had filed an online FIR and demanded investigation and action from the police, but no action was taken by the police. After this, Kumar approached the High Court and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or judicial investigation of the case through a public interest litigation. The court was told that the state government has formed a special investigation team to investigate the matter, but the action of the team does not seem to be transparent. The petitioner said that no investigation done by the SIT has come to light, so a demand is made to the CBI to investigate it in an impartial manner. The court has put a stay on the result of the examination at a time when the commission started the process of document verification on Monday. 

JSSC had called 2,231 selected candidates for document verification between 16 and 22 December. Some candidates gathered near the JSSC office on Monday to protest against the document verification. They said that when the matter is pending in the High Court, the commission should not conduct document verification.