Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu
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Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday mentioned a course of has been began to terminate 42 authorities officials involved in “malpractices” in varied exams performed by the state public service fee.
Making a press release throughout the finances dialogue in the meeting, Mr. Khandu additionally mentioned that since 2017, there have been eleven exams performed by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission, in which a complete of 54 folks, together with 42 authorities officials, have been arrested on allegations of malpractices.
Terming the paper leak problem as “inhumane”, the Chief Minister mentioned that the federal government has been dealing with the alleged irregularities strictly by conducting a probe by the Special Investigating Cell (SIC) of the State police and later, the investigation was handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation.
The company filed a chargesheet on December 9 final yr in opposition to eight folks and one other on January 30 this yr in opposition to one particular person.
Mr. Khandu mentioned the federal government, in February after a gathering with the Pan Arunachal Joint Steering Committee (PAJSC), had written to the Gauhati High Court to designate District and Sessions Court, Yupia as a particular fast-track court docket to take up the APPSC paper leak instances.
“The high court has positively responded and agreed to designate District and Sessions Court, Yupia as a special fast-track court to take up the APPSC paper leak cases,” he mentioned.
On the demand for conducting exams by UPSC, the Chief Minister mentioned the federal government has already taken up the problem with it and is ready for its response.
“It will depend on whether the UPSC will agree or not to conduct exams. If they do not agree, we will have to constitute a new commission to arrange for tests,” he mentioned, including that the appointments of chairman and members of the APPSC have been cancelled not too long ago.
Referring to the demand of the PAJSC to declare all exams performed by APPSC as “null & void” and subsequent protests by the mother and father of real candidates opposing it, Mr. Khandu clarified that the federal government has “no rule to declare the exams ‘null & void’ as the APPSC is an autonomous body”.
“The government will ask the new commission to decide and if required, it could seek the government’s suggestions,” he added.
The paper leak incident got here to gentle after a candidate filed a criticism on the Itanagar Police Station on August 29 final yr, claiming that he suspected that the Assistant Engineers (civil) examination paper had been leaked.
More than 400 candidates appeared for the take a look at held on August 26 and 27 final yr.
