The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has canceled its third phase teacher recruitment examination.
New Delhi: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) has canceled its third phase teacher recruitment examination. The examination has been called off for both the sitting. This comes after the economic offence unit (EoU), constituted to probe allegations of question paper leak, submitted the report to the BPSC chairman.
To recall, the commission, within three days after the EOU, had issued the second communique saying that following preliminary investigation regarding the question papers of TRE had reached an organised gang a day in advance through a pen drive.
In the second communique BPSC said that, “The EoU reported that examination papers reached an organised gang before the examination. The EoU registered an FIR on March 16 under various sections of IPC. The commission sought credible evidence from the EoU, but it refused to provide evidence saying that the investigation is on progress and seized evidences can not to be shared as per rules. Following the FIR registered by the EoU, the commission decided to cancelled the examination and the next date will be announced later,” read in communique.
BPSC conducted TRE-3 exams on March 15 at 415 examination centre on two shifts. Around 3.75 lakh aspirants took part in the exams.
On Sunday BPSC had refused to cancel the TRE, for want of credible evidence. After this, several aspirants started protesting demanding re-exam and also shared videos and screenshots of paper leak on X.