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The police were investigating the case. (Representative) The Gujarat government's competition for the recruitment of junior employees was called off hours before its scheduled date on Sunday because its questionnaire was leaked and police arrested a suspect in the matter, the state panchayat examination board said. As many as 9.5 lakh candidates had signed up for the 1,181-position exam to be taken at 2,995 centers across the state.
Based on a tip, police arrested a suspect and recovered a copy of the exam questionnaire early Sunday morning, after which the Gujarat Panchayat Service Selection Committee decided to 'postpone' the exam in the interests of the candidates, it said. the council in a statement. declaration.
Police were investigating the case, he added.
“The junior secretary (administrative/accounting) exam was scheduled to take place in different districts between 11:00 and 12:00 on January 29. According to information received from the police early Sunday morning, they arrested a suspect and, during his interrogation, seized a copy of the questionnaire from his possession," the council said in the statement.
The jury expressed its regret for the inconvenience caused to the candidates and informed them not to go to the examination centers.
"The review will be redone as soon as possible, so the board will issue a new announcement," he said.
Gujarat Congress spokesman Manish Doshi claimed it was the 15th government contest to be canceled in the past 12 years due to leaked documents.
“The government claims to be cracking down, but the main culprits haven't even been caught. The government is playing with the future of the youth of the state”, he alleged.
Doshi claimed that the exam, first announced in 2016, had been canceled for the third time.
Gujarat Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Chairman Isudan Gadhvi took to Twitter to attack the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state over the paper leak issue.
Gujarat has been marred by a series of leaked cases of competitive exam question papers that have caused widespread unrest among the state's youth.
The BJP government had faced strong opposition from Congress and the AAP on the issue ahead of state assembly elections held last month.
In the course of the electoral campaign in l'État, the national organization of the AAP, Arvind Kejriwal, avait même promis d'adopter une loi stricte contre les fuites de documentos de examen, assortie d'une peine de dix ans de prison.
