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Court to hear CBI plea on Jharkhand exam
The Hindu··23 Aug
On 24 August 2026, a Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana is listed to hear a plea for a time-bound CBI probe into the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Preliminary Examination. Activist Harisharan Devgan filed the Article 32 petition through advocate Satyam Singh Rajput. The test was held on 19 April 2026.
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What It Means For You
- If you sat the 19 April 2026 JPSC prelims, Monday's listing is about who investigates the paper, not a fresh exam date.
- Anyone holding an OMR carbon copy should note the petition asks that those sheets and server logs be preserved.
- If you are preparing for a retest, the State has already cancelled this prelim, but the plea says a new paper should wait for an independent finding on how the last one failed.
What's Happening
- The writ is listed before the Chief Justice's bench on 24 August 2026 after an urgent mention for early listing.
- Protests and hunger strikes in Ranchi followed the 2 July result and a viral answer sheet that appeared to show evaluation gaps.
- The petitioner says the CID should not investigate the same State recruitment machinery that conducted the test.
What The August Hearing Can Still Decide
- Advertisement No. 01/2026 covered the 2025 Combined Civil Services preliminary cycle conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission.
- Students have also protested other cancelled Jharkhand job tests, including JSSC papers, which sit outside this CBI plea.
- The petition asks for a court-monitored, time-bound inquiry so any later recruitment uses a process that can be audited.
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