In accordance to the directives of the Allahabad High Court, which ordered to cancel the selection of all the candidates, who had used whitener in their answer sheets in the sub-inspector/platoon commanders recruitment drive made during 2011 and result of which were declared on March 16 last, UP Police Recruitment and Promotional Board (UPPR&PB) had announced the revised results on Thursday evening.
According to an official communiqué of the UPPR&PB released on Thursday evening, they cancelled the recruitment of 750 candidates who were selected for sub-inspector post and 60 for platoon commander post, thus the selection of total of 810 candidates has been cancelled. After making above cancellation as per the HC’s directives, UPPR&PB announced revised list which the candidates could now see on (http://uppbpb.gov.in).
The release further said that now after the revision, Gaurav Singh, of Badaun Neeraj Kumar Tripathi of Santravidasnagar and Animesh Shukla of Pratapgarh, remained on first, second and third spot respectively amongst the men while in females, Rachna Sangwan of Mirjapur tops the list followed by Shaiasta of Pratapgarh and Jyoti Singh of Meerut. Against the vacany of 3698 post, the selected list carried 1774 of general category, 928 of OBCs, 722 in SC and 22 in ST category. In absence of ST category candidates, 47 seats under the said quote has been fulfilled by the SC candidate, the release mentioned. The above list also included 281 females, 37 dependants of freedom fighters, and 17 former army personnel.
It may be mentioned that on May 29 last, the HC while delivering the judgement on the issue on Friday, directed the state government to cancel the selection of all the candidates who had used whitener in their copies. Reports said that out of the total candidates applied for SI/PC recruitment post, 14256 reached till final examination. later, after group discussion, the UPPR&PB announced the list of 3801 successful candidates on March 16 last. The names of remaining candidates have been retained due to writs in the court regarding adjustment of some quotas.
Reports said that when some candidates went to HC and raised the issue of use of whiteners in the copies, the court directed state government to enquire and submit a detail report. later after enquiry, the (UPPR&PB) claimed a total of 3808 candidates used the whitener, only 800 of them finds their names in the final selection list. Sources also confirmed that it was also found that even if the numbers against the write answers on which whitener have been used, are deleted from the total marks of those candidates, still 720 out of the total 800 selected will still got their names cleared in the final list and only fate of 80 candidates would hang in balance. A senior officer in the UPRPB also tried to defend the selection claiming that the examinee had every right to use whitener to correct the answer till the answer sheets is in his possession and they can not deny it.