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Patna, (Bihar Times): In a significant judgement the Patna high court on Friday sets aside the results of preliminary tests for the 48th to 52nd combined competitive examination conducted by Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC).
Incidentally, the BPSC was scheduled to hold the main examinations from February 2.
A single bench of Justice Navin Sinha while setting aside the results on a bunch of petitions filed by unsuccessful candidates alleging irregularities in holding the examination directed BPSC to conduct a fresh the preliminary test and work out modalities for it.
The court holds that the entire preliminary test process conducted in persuance of advertisement number 4 of 2007 is vitiated. The Commission is directed to hold afresh the preliminary test in accordance with the law, the ruling said.
The court rejected Advocate General P K Sahi's contention that the petitions be rejected as only a miniscule number of unsuccesful candidates of the over 1.76 lakh who appeared for the test had approached the court seeking annulment of the result.
The ruling said that: “Even if the rights of a person is violated it is unacceptable in a democratic set up. We are here to protect the right of that single person.”.
The BPSC had conducted the preliminary tests on May 25 last year at 530 centres across the state and 19,318 candidates were declared successful on September 19. About 150 unsuccessful candidates had moved the court alleging anomalies in the question paper. They alleged that many questions were faulty, while some model answers were also wrong. Some others had charged that the number of questions also varied indicating that the test was conducted in a discriminatory manner.
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