Jaipur, September 8 (Udaipur Kiran). The Rajasthan High Court’s Division Bench has stayed the order of a Single Bench that had earlier indicated cancellation of the 2021 Sub-Inspector (SI) recruitment due to the paper leak case. However, the Division Bench maintained the restriction on granting field postings to the selected candidates.
The order was passed by a bench comprising Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and Justice Sanjeet Purohit while hearing an appeal filed by Amar Singh and others. The matter will next be heard on October 8.
The Division Bench questioned how the petitioners in the Single Bench had obtained the first confidential report of the Special Operations Group (SOG), which they had placed before the court.
Arguments Presented
Senior Advocate R.N. Mathur, appearing for the appellants, argued that the recruitment process involved multiple stages — a written exam, physical efficiency test (conducted by senior police officers of IG and SP rank), and an interview before a panel including an IG-rank officer, a psychologist, and an RPSC member.
He submitted that while the written exam may have been partially affected by malpractice, the physical and interview stages were conducted independently and fairly. Therefore, cancelling the entire recruitment based on misconduct by a few candidates would be unjust.
The state government’s July report also indicated that only a limited number of candidates were involved in the leak and that identifying and removing them was possible. It had recommended against scrapping the recruitment entirely.
The counsel further pointed out that the Single Bench had relied solely on SOG and ATS chief V.K. Singh’s first confidential report, while a subsequent Cabinet Sub-Committee report had advised against cancelling the recruitment.
Background
On August 28, the Single Bench had observed that cancellation of the SI recruitment was justified and had directed the state government to prepare a detailed report and submit it to the RPSC. It also recommended including the affected posts in the 2025 recruitment cycle and reverting selected candidates who had already left their previous government jobs back to those services.
The Division Bench has now stayed those directions while keeping the ban on field postings intact until further hearing.
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