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SC notice on judges exam fraud


-PTI

The Supreme Court today issued notice to the Chhattisgarh High Court registry on a PIL alleging manipulation and irregularities in the conduct of a civil judges examination in 2008 to favour candidates related to certain judges, bureaucrats and politicians.

A bench of Justices R.M. Lodha and H.L. Gokhale issued the directive after counsel Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL), submitted that no action had been taken on the allegations even though the matter was brought to the notice of the then Chief Justice of India in 2008.

“The entire selection process of the exam is vitiated by favouritism and malafide, as candidates are close relatives of the senior judges and bureaucrats. The intelligent and suitable candidates have been sidelined to favour certain candidates related to senior judges and bureaucrats.” the petition said.

Bhushan alleged that a number of relatives and associates of sitting judges, bureaucrats and politicians have been selected by employing fraudulent means such as manipulations of answer sheets and serious irregularities in their evaluation.

The scrutiny of the answer sheets of two successful candidates, siblings of Radhey Shyam Sharma, the legal secretary of the Chhattisgarh government, indicates that the marks have been awarded only in numerals, not in words, thus disobeying the Chhattisgarh High Court’s order, the petition alleged.

The answer sheet of another candidate was also allegedly manipulated by altering marks to favour her, the petition said.