PIL files in HP high court over Police Constable paper leak case 

A public interest litigation was moved in the High Court in the Himachal Pradesh Police Constable written exam paper leak case on Thursday.  The Division bench of Chief Justice Mohammad Rafiq and Justice Sandeep Sharma on Thursday listed the matter on May 26 and issued the notices to the officers of the state government today. The counsel of petitioner Advocate Vinaya Sharma sought the CBI probe in the matter stating that same agency which was conducting the paper could not be trusted to lodge the inquiry into the paper leak case.  He contended in the petitioner that the constable recruitment paper has been leaked from the police custody.  Only the people included in the selection board have been kept in the SIT.  In such a situation, a fair investigation could not be expected from the state police.  The petitioner said this is the second such scam in the police recruitment .  Once the paper was sold and got leaked and earlier different candidates were caught in appearing the written examination instead of the candidates who passed the ground.  Questioning the justification off police conducting the examination or test for recruitment he said that when there is a Selection Services Commission for recruitment in the state, it is not rational to get such examination conducted by the police itself. It is worthwhile to mentioned that Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur has announced to constitute a Special Investigation Team after the paper leak case surfaced and 15 people have been arrest including some youths of candidates in  Kangra district who were allegedly found involved in the paper leak case, Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur himself had directed to constitute an SIT to investigate the matter.  So right now the SIT is investigating this matter.  The opposition is also continuously raising questions on the SIT investigation and the high officials are expected to be involved in the paper leak case. The petitioner said that state police conducted  a written examination on March 27 for 1334 posts of police constables in men’s and women’s categories.  In this 75,803 candidates were sitting.  The result was also declared in the month of April.  The list of the candidates who came in the merit was almost ready.  Preparations were on to give them joining, but before that a WhatsApp chat about the paper leak went viral.  Some youths of Arki area of Solan met the Chief Minister, Chief Secretary and Home Secretary in this matter.  After this, the investigation of the case was started on the instructions of the government.  Now new revelations are happening.  Altogether 1,87,311 youths and girls had applied for Police Constable.