Group 1 preliminary examination of Telangana State Public Service Commission was scrapped by Telangana High Court.The court directed the TSPSC to conduct the examination again.
The exam conducted on June 11 was cancelled as some candidates and National Students Union of India leader Venkat Balmoori approached the High Court.The petitioners contended that biometric system was not followed in the conduct of the examination.
The OMR sheets was given without hall ticket numbers.
This is the second time that the TSPSC Group 1 examination was cancelled.
The Group 1 prelims were first conducted on October 16, 2022.However, the examination had been cancelled earlier due to a slew of leakage of question papers.
The Telangana Government ordered an inquiry into the leakage.
TSPSC paper leak
The TSPSC scam came to light on March 13 following a complaint by a youth.The police initially arrested nine accused including Praveen Kumar, who worked as an assistant section officer at TSPSC and Rajashekar Reddy, a network admin at TSPSC.
They had allegedly stolen question papers of some exams from a computer in a confidential section of the Commission and sold it to other accused.
Subsequently, the SIT arrested 15 accused from Mahabubnagar district alone.The investigators later found that the case has links with Hyderabad, Rangareddy, Nagarkurnool, Khammam and Nalgonda districts.
The exam paper leak case created a sensation in Telangana as opposition parties Congress and BJP blamed the BRS government for the leak that affected lakhs of unemployed in the state.
The opposition is also demanding a probe by a sitting judge of the High Court or by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
