JPSC Exam Postponed: Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has postponed the 7th State Administrative Services Main Examination to be held from January 28 with immediate effect.
The Commission today told the High Court that it will review the results of the preliminary examination in the matter of reservation in various categories.
The commission made a statement in this regard during the hearing in a division bench of Chief Justice Dr. Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad on Tuesday on a petition seeking a stay on the seventh JPSC main examination.
Earlier, in the High Court, there was a hearing on the points of reservation in the preliminary examination in the 7th JPSC.
During the hearing, when the court sought a clear answer from JPSC on the allegations of reservation in the preliminary examination also, the commission postponed the main examination for two weeks and sought time to file the reply.
Accepting the request, the court gave the commission two weeks and listed the matter for February 15.
Jharkhand Pradesh Public Service Commission’s main examination to be held from January 28 has now been postponed with immediate effect.
Earlier on Monday, the court had heard an appeal filed against the reservation given in the 7th JPSC Preliminary Examination.
The court asked the commission that how many seats are there in the 7th JPSC according to the category? Is reservation given in the preliminary examination or not? How many reserved category candidates have been selected in the general category? On all these points the Commission had to answer.
A single bench of the High Court had recently refused to stay the main examination. The order of the Single Bench has been challenged in the Bench.
During the hearing, advocate Amritansh Vats, appearing for the petitioner, told the court, “Reservation has been given in the preliminary examination of the seventh JPSC also.
Neither it was mentioned in the advertisement nor has the state government made any policy according to which the benefit of reservation can be given in the preliminary examination.
On June 16, 2021, in the case of Ghulam Sadiq, a division bench of the High Court had said that according to the Jharkhand government, there is no policy of giving reservation in the preliminary examination of JPSC. In 2015, in the case of Laxman Toppo, the High Court had also said that the Jharkhand government’s policy is not to give reservation in the preliminary examination.
The petitioner said in the debate on Monday that 114 seats belonged to the general category.
According to the rules fifteen times the examinees should have been declared successful. In this way 1710 candidates should have been selected in the general category, but only 768 candidates have been selected.
This shows that reservation was given in the preliminary examination.
The court has been requested to conduct the main examination and cancel the result of the preliminary examination.
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