by The Supreme Court has stayed the declaration of results for the SSC CGL 2017 Staff Selection Commission’s (SSC) Combined Graduate Level Examination (CGL). Court said that it appeared from the first look that the entire SSC CGL Exam 2017 was tainted.
“It prima facie appears that the entire SSC system is tainted and entire examinations are tainted. It can not be believed that the custodian of the examination paper is himself leaking the paper,” the bench said.
Advocates Prashant Bhushan and Govind Jee, appearing for petitioner Shantanu Kumar, alleged that the CBI in its first status report had itself admitted that the custodian of examination paper has leaked the paper. Bhushan sought a stay on the declaration of results, pointing out that it will be released in a day or two.
Several lakh students had appeared in the SSC examination and those who qualify, enter government services in C and D Category of jobs. The petitioner had said that the SSC Combined Graduate Level Examination was being outsourced to a private vendor, which has allegedly been accused in connection with the Satyam scam. He said there was a high probability of cheating and malpractices as the private vendor entrusted to conduct the exam by the SSC has further outsourced it in some centres.