BPSC sends legal notice to Prashant Kishor for ‘defamatory’ allegations about exam body

The Bihar Public Service Commission has sent a legal notice to Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishor for levelling “false, nasty and defamatory allegations” against the government body amid the protests by civil services aspirants, reported The Indian Express on Sunday.

Civil services aspirants in Bihar who appeared for the 70th Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination on December 13 have been protesting in Patna since December 18, alleging a question paper leak at one of the centres.

They have also alleged that CCTV cameras and jammers were not functioning at several examination centres and that question papers were distributed late at some.

Kishor has been on an indefinite hunger strike since January 2 to press for the cancellation of the preliminary examination.

In interviews, he had alleged that the commission sold the civil services seats for Rs 30 lakh to Rs 1.5 crore and that is why did not want to conduct a re-examination, reported The Hindu.

“You have levelled false, nasty, baseless and defamatory allegations in respect of my client [BPSC] with regards to its conduct and integrity without any basis, in particular about the irregularities, corruption, malpractice and selling of seats through various modes in respected of integrated 70th Combined (Preliminary) Competitive Examination conducted by my client,” read the notice sent to Kishor on January 10, according to The Indian Express.

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