ES Reporter

ITANAGAR, Sep 16: In a major jolt to the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC), the Guwahati High Court, Itanagar  Permanent Bench  today directed the Commission to conduct afresh the preliminary examination by strictly following  the rules, guidelines, syllabus within  a period of  eight weeks.
The judgment came after almost one year of filing the WP ( C) 475 and 486  of 2018  by the aspirants of Commerce subjects on August 2018. Petitioners (Commerce subject aspirants) alleged that they had found various anomalies in the question papers and over 100 questions are out of the syllabus. Moreover, only three of the 1030 Commerce candidates were able to clear the Preliminary exam.
The court in its judgment added ‘the Prelims conducted on 29.07.2018, the result declared on 02.08.2018 and 16.08.2018 is hereby set-aside. In view thereof, the Mains conducted on 10.11.2018 also do not survive and stands set aside.
Court also directed the Commission that, it shall allow all the candidates who were earlier given Admit Cards to appear for the Prelims to be conducted and if the same Admit card is no longer retained by the candidates, the Commission shall issue a fresh one on request.
On the five-member expert, a committee constituted under the Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University to examine the irregularities as per the Court order in WP(C) Nos. 475 and 486 of 2018, today the Court has clarified that the said order was put to challenge by the Commission before a Division Bench of this court in W.A No.359 of 2018 and the Division Bench Vide an interim Order dated 29.02,2019 stayed the order dated 14.11.2018 pending consideration of the appeal.
The advertisement for Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Combined Competitive Examination under Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission was issued on 9 May 2017 for at least 105 posts. 

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