Feb 18, 2025 11:19 AM IST
Justice (retired) Biplab Kumar Sharma Fee’s two stories had been tabled within the Assam meeting on Monday three years after the primary of them was submitted
A fee that probed the recruitment of bureaucrats and cops in Assam via 2013 and 2014 Mixed Aggressive Exams (CCEs) has discovered jobs had been “available for sale” for just a few lakh to ₹50 lakh, making a mockery of the choice course of.
The panel stated the APSC was lowered to a personal guild. (apsc.nic.in)
Justice (retired) Biplab Kumar Sharma Fee’s two stories had been tabled within the Assam meeting on Monday three years after the primary of them was submitted. It submitted its report on the 2013 examination in April 2022 and the one on 2014 in October 2023.
The panel stated the Assam Public Service Fee (APSC) was lowered to a personal guild and an employment company for offering jobs “in lieu of money and other extraneous considerations”. It added the sanctity of the constitutional physique was violated with impunity. “Jobs were made available for sale,” the fee’s report on the 2013 picks stated.
The panel stated there’s motive to imagine that the candidates chosen on extraneous concerns had been allowed to jot down their examinations at locations aside from the examination halls or had been allowed duplication. It added malpractices seemingly had been “quite bigger and larger than what could be unearthed”.
The report stated that it was for the state authorities to take a name on whether or not all picks via CCE 2013 needs to be put aside and whether or not there needs to be an investigation into CCE 2014 to revive public confidence in APSC.
The report stated there are doubts about different CCEs and examinations carried out throughout Rakesh Paul’s tenure as APSC chairman. Paul was a part of the APSC from 2008 and 2016 first as a member of APSC and later chairman.
The report on the 2014 examination stated that the providers of among the recruits made via the CCEs of 2013 and 2014 have been terminated however many had been nonetheless within the administration occupying excessive and key positions. “With their illegal presence in service, not only the administration or for that matter the public will suffer, but it will carry a very wrong message towards compromising merit and performance of deserving candidates,” the report on the 2014 examination stated. HT has seen copies of each stories.
The alleged cash-for-jobs rip-off got here to mild in 2016 when dozens of candidates had been accused of utilizing unfair means to clear the Assam Civil Service and Assam Police Service exams in 2013 and 2014 in cahoots with Paul.
The Assam Police arrested 60 officers from the 2013 batch and 39 had been subsequently terminated from service. In April 2022, a particular court docket in Guwahati framed fees towards 67 accused, together with Paul and 6 different APSC members, within the rip-off.
The state authorities fashioned the inquiry fee to analyze the 2023 and 2014 recruitments on the Gauhati excessive court docket’s instructions.