The Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) said on Friday that it was considering criminal and disciplinary penal action against two candidates for allegedly claiming selection in the civil services examination, the results of which were declared earlier this week.
The case relates to Aysha Makrani (from Madhya Pradesh) and Tushar who fraudulently claimed that they have been finally recommended by the Commission in the civil services examination 2022 against two roll numbers of genuinely recommended candidates, it said.
“The claims of both persons are fake. They have forged the documents in their favour to buttress their claims,” said the statement issued by the UPSC on May 26.
By doing so, both Ms. Makrani and Mr. Tushar have acted in contravention of the provisions of the Rules of the Civil Services Examination, 2022 notified by the Government of India (Department of Personnel and Training), it said.
Therefore, in accordance with the provisions of the Examination Rules, the UPSC is contemplating both criminal as well as disciplinary penal action against the two candidates for their fraudulent acts, the statement said.
‘Foolproof system’
“The system of the UPSC is robust as well as foolproof and such errors are not possible,” it added.
It said that Ms. Makrani who is claiming her final recommendation by the UPSC is found to have forged the documents in her favour. “Her actual Roll Number is 7805064. She appeared in the Preliminary Examination held on June 5, 2022 and scored only 22.22 marks in General Studies Paper-I and 21.09 marks in General Studies Paper-II against the minimum score of 66 marks in Paper-II. “She has not only failed to qualify in Paper-II but scored far less marks than the cut-off marks of Paper-I, which were 88.22 for unreserved category for the Preliminary Examination of the year 2022. Hence, Ms. Makrani has failed at the stage of the Preliminary Examination itself and could not move further in next stages of the examination,” the commission said.
On the other hand, Ayasha Fatima, bearing Roll Number 7811744, is the genuine candidate, who has been recommended by the UPSC, securing 184th rank in the final result of the CSE examination, 2022, it said.
The UPSC said that in the other case, Mr. Tushar from Rewari, Haryana with Roll Number 2208860 scored minus 22.89 (i.e. -22.89) marks in General Studies Paper-I and 44.73 marks in General Studies Paper-II. “It is confirmed that Tushar Kumar bearing Roll Number 1521306, of State of Bihar is the genuine candidate, who has been recommended by the UPSC at 44th rank,” it said.
