Jharkhand HC quashes government decision to cancel graduate-level recruitment exam

What happened: The Jharkhand High Court quashed the state government's decision to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level examination, held under advertisement 10/2023, and ordered that selected candidates be reinstated. Key numbers: 22 exams were cancelled in the August 18 notification; six others were postponed; the exam was held under Why it matters: Justice Deepak Roshan said the guilty could be identified through investigation rather than cancelling the entire exam, and the court said the state government failed to provide concrete evidence.

The Jharkhand High Court quashed the state government's decision to cancel the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission Combined Graduate Level examination, held under advertisement 10/2023, and ordered that selected candidates be reinstated.

Justice Deepak Roshan said the guilty could be identified through investigation rather than cancelling the entire exam, and the court said the state government failed to provide concrete evidence.