On Wednesday, 4th January 2023, the Bihar police lathi-charged the younger aspirants of the Bihar Staff Selection Commission examination protesting n Patna towards the state authorities over the paper leak scandal. Due to accusations of query paper leaks on social media channels, the primary sitting of the BSSC third graduate stage joint preliminary check was cancelled, triggering pupil protests.
Students have been asking for the cancellation of all evaluation phases, citing potential dangers to their future.
#WATCH बिहार: BSSC उम्मीदवारों ने राज्य सरकार के खिलाफ पटना में विरोध प्रदर्शन किया। प्रदर्शनकारियों को तितर-बितर करने के लिए पुलिस ने उन पर लाठीचार्ज किया और कुछ प्रदर्शनकारियों को हिरासत में लिया। pic.twitter.com/rmY62UyeJX
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At 11:15 am, candidates aspiring for the BSSC started to march from Patna College to Dakbunglow Road. Several candidates have been harm in the course of the lathi-charge, and the Bihar Police additionally detained plenty of candidates.
The college students, who took to the streets, accused the Nitish Kumar authorities of taking part in with the way forward for the scholars. Anti-government slogans have been raised.
MS Khan, the particular government Justice of the Peace, Patna, mentioned, “They started violence and vandalism, and to control it, (lathi-charge) was done. Some have been arrested. FIR will be registered against them.”
Bihar | They began violence and vandalism and to regulate it, (lathi-charge) was finished. Some have been arrested. FIR might be registered towards them: MS Khan, Special Executive Magistrate, Patna pic.twitter.com/u63RZP60i6
— ANI (@ANI) January 4, 2023
Following the submission of a report by the Bihar Police’s Economic Offenses Unit (EOU) on the query paper leak, the state fee determined to cancel the primary spherical of the recruitment examination that was scheduled to happen within the final week of December 2022. The examination was meant to fill 2,187 openings within the Bihar authorities. Before the primary check session, the query paper purportedly appeared on social media, and footage of it shortly went viral.
An examinee was already arrested by officers following the scandal. Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, mentioned beforehand that the probe is being finished correctly within the case.