Lucknow, 6th August 2021: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against the then Controller of Examination, UPPSC, unknown public servants of UPPSC and other unknown private persons on the allegations of irregularities on the part of the officials of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) whereby they entered into a conspiracy by abusing their official position, resulting into the selection of some undeserving candidates in relation to Additional Private Secretary Exam, 2010.

The case has been registered against Prabhunath, the then Controller of Examination, UPPSC, unknown public servants of UPPSC and other unknown private persons.

It was further alleged that UPPSC had advertised 250 posts of Additional Private Secretary (APS) for direct recruitment as APS-2010 through an advertisement dated 25.12.2010. The last date of submission of the form was 21.01.2011. The final result of this exam was declared on 3.10.2017. It was also alleged that rules were violated with regard to relaxation of mistakes in Hindi Shorthand Test in order to favour certain candidates. Even though Commission on 15.06.2015 had approved relaxation of 5% errors in Hindi Shorthand Test, candidates who had committed mistakes upto 8% were also allegedly declared qualified for 3rd phase of Examination i.e. Computer Knowledge Test.

It was further alleged that the advertisement rules were relaxed for few candidates and were allowed to change their Computer Certificates. It was also found that in some cases the requisite Computer Certificates submitted by some of the candidates were allegedly found to be forged/false and still those candidates were declared qualified by the Commission. The evaluation and scrutiny of answer sheets have not been done properly by the Experts and Scrutinizers. It was also alleged that the improper evaluation had resulted into selection of some undeserving candidates.

Searches were conducted today at the premises of the then Controller of Examination, at Lucknow.