The CBI has registered a case against the then Controller of Examination and unknown public servants of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) besides other unknown private persons on the allegations of irregularities, resulting in selection of some undeserving candidates through Additional Private Secretary Examination, 2010.
The agency on Friday conducted searches at the premises of the then Controller of Examination, at Lucknow, Prabhunath.
The UPPSC officials allegedly entered into conspiracy by abusing their official position.
“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 CBI said in a statement.
Last date of submission of the form was January 21, 2011 and final result was declared on October 3, 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, it said.
The Commission had on June 15, 2015 had approved relaxation of 5 per cent errors in Hindi Shorthand Test, candidates who had committed mistakes up to 8% were also allegedly declared qualified for the third phase of the Examination under the Computer Knowledge Test, it alleged.
It was also 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 in selection of some undeserving candidates,” it added.