‘Material shows exam was tainted’
The Supreme Court on Friday ordered the government not to declare the results for the 2017 examination held for selection of staff for government departments and ministries, saying “there is sufficient material” to show that the examination was tainted.
A Bench of Justices S.A. Bobde and L. Nageswara Rao put on hold the declaration of results of the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) CGL (Combined Graduate Level) Examination 2017 and CHSL (Combined Higher Secondary Level) Examination 2017, until further orders.
The Bench made the decision after perusing a status report submitted by the Central Bureau of Investigation, which said that some candidates, in conspiracy with the site supervisor of an examination centre, “illegally shared the screen of their PCs with unknown persons for getting undue benefit in solving the question papers.”
The agency said the answer key went “viral on social media” at 10.10 a.m. on February 21, 2018, before the scheduled time of exam at 10.30 a.m.
