SC criticizes UP govt services commission for questions with ambiguous set of answers
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has slammed the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Services Selection Commission (UPSSSC) for having set certain questions with ambiguous choices as answers for the Revenue Lekhpal examination for 2021-2022 and has directed the Commission to re-evaluate the answer sheets.
The bench consisting of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and K Vinod Chandran has also said that the ambiguity in the answers has affected the outcome for over 8,000 candidates who had competed for 8,085 vacancies, reports LiveLaw.
The judges further resolved the ambiguities in three major questions from Booklet Series B.
The question on the location from where Mahatma Gandhi started the Salt Satyagraha gave options of Dandi, Surat, Sabarmati and Pawnar. The bench pointed out that the site of violation of the salt law was Dandi from a purely technical point of view. The official position in considering it the right answer was correct. The judges added that the Satyagraha commenced from Sabarmati, and therefore could also be considered as correct although not technically so. They said that the candidates who opt for either of the above answers should be given full marks.
The bench also gave directions related to the longest national highway in Uttar Pradesh, stating that, as the numbers had changed with time, two answers could be considered correct. Thirdly, it referred to the eligibility of farmers to get subsidy under the solar photovoltaic irrigation pump scheme and clarified that two answers were correct due to the changes in the policy implemented by the government.
The judges chastised the UPSSSC for the ambiguous and unclear questions it had set and stressed that the lapses proved to be highly disadvantageous for the candidates. They also directed the Commission to award appropriate marks to the affected candidates while protecting those who had been selected, to avoid disruption in the recruitment process.
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Dharmasthala Mass Burial Case: Complainant appears before SIT in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: The complainant in the Dharmasthala Mass Burial Case on Saturday appeared before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) appointed by the state government to probe the alleged criminal activities under the jurisdiction limits of Dharmasthala Police Station.
The complainant is said to have presented himself before the SIT at the IB office in Kadri, accompanied by his advocates. The complainant is expected to be interrogated in the presence of DIG (Recruitment Division) MN Anucheth, sources have said.
The Karnataka government constituted the SIT under the leadership of Director General of Police (Internal Security Division), Pranav Mohanty, with other key members including DIG (Recruitment Division) MN Anucheth, DCP (CAR Central) Soumya Latha, and SP (Internal Security Division) Jitendra Kumar Dayama.
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