UP police constable exam scrapped amid leak allegations; CM Yogi

LUCKNOW: Following the allegations of paper leak, the Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday cancelled the police constable recruitment examination and ordered a re-test within the next six months.

In a statement, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said that those who used unfair means during the exam conducted on February 17 and 18 across the state will face the strictest action.

“Those involved in using unfair means and breaching the secrecy of the
examination are under the radar of Special Task Force (STF) of UP police, and some big arrests have happened,” the CM was quoted as saying in the statement.

The CM said that there won’t be any compromise with the sanctity of the
examination while assuring the applicants that those who tried to play around with their hard work would be dealt with an iron fist.

The decision to cancel the recruitment drive was taken by the CM on Saturday after reviewing the evidence of an alleged paper leak at a high level meeting with the UP DGP, ADG (Law and Order), Principal Secretary, Home.

However, the probe into the alleged leak of the paper was handed over to the UPSTF. Considered to be one of the biggest recruitment drives by any state government, the examination to fill the posts of 60,244 police constables was held on February 17-18, wherein a total of 48 lakh candidates appeared. In all 50 lack applicants had filled out the forms. The examination was held at a total of 2,378 examination centres across all 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh.