Confirmed High source confidence State body

BSSC 1st Inter-Level Combined (Clerical-grade) Competitive Exam

5 February 2017 Bihar (Patna) / Jharkhand (arrest) Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC)

Status

Confirmed

A leak or organised manipulation was established by an official body, a court, or a police investigation.

Candidates affected

—

No figure in the source

Arrests

reported at the time

Convictions

—

None recorded here

What happened

The clerical-grade recruitment paper was leaked on WhatsApp; the state cancelled the exam and an SIT arrested the BSSC chairman (a senior IAS officer) along with several relatives and others, around 30 people in total.

What was done

Exam cancelled

Arrests / FIR

Official probe — SIT

Source

Primary reference The Tribune (PTI) ↗ https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/nation/paper-leak-case-bihar-staff-service-commission-chairman-arrested-in-jharkhand-368898

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What happened

What was done

Source

1 other incident at BSSC

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