Qualified candidates for the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) exams protested outside Project Bhavan in Ranchi after the Hemant Soren-led government's decision to cancel 44 recruitment examinations, citing alleged irregularities. The affected candidates, many of whom secured their positions through court orders, condemned the move as an "arbitrary decree" and vowed to pursue legal recourse. The government's decision impacts a wide range of administrative and technical posts, including those conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourced agencies since 2014. While some student groups continue their agitation demanding a CBI investigation, the protesters facing job losses are seeking justice through the courts, emphasizing the unfairness of being judged by the same scale as those involved in malpractices.

Qualified candidates for the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) exams protested outside Project Bhavan in Ranchi after the Hemant Soren-led government's decision to cancel 44 recruitment examinations, citing alleged irregularities. The affected candidates, many of whom secured their positions through court orders, condemned the move as an "arbitrary decree" and vowed to pursue legal recourse. The government's decision impacts a wide range of administrative and technical posts, including those conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourced agencies since 2014. While some student groups continue their agitation demanding a CBI investigation, the protesters facing job losses are seeking justice through the courts, emphasizing the unfairness of being judged by the same scale as those involved in malpractices.

Qualified candidates for the Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) exams protested outside Project Bhavan in Ranchi after the Hemant Soren-led government's decision to cancel 44 recruitment examinations, citing alleged irregularities. The affected candidates, many of whom secured their positions through court orders, condemned the move as an "arbitrary decree" and vowed to pursue legal recourse. The government's decision impacts a wide range of administrative and technical posts, including those conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourced agencies since 2014. While some student groups continue their agitation demanding a CBI investigation, the protesters facing job losses are seeking justice through the courts, emphasizing the unfairness of being judged by the same scale as those involved in malpractices.

Jharkhand Staff Selection Commission-Combined Graduate Level (JSSC-CGL) qualified candidates staged a protest outside Project Bhavan in Ranchi on Wednesday against the state government's decision to cancel the examinations. The protesters said they would approach the court challenging the decision.

The Hemant Soren-led government cancelled 44 recruitment examinations amid allegations of irregularities and week-long protests by various student organisations. The cancelled examinations include those conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) and outsourced agency TSR Data Processing Pvt Ltd (TDPL) since 2014.

Among the other major examinations cancelled are those for the recruitment of lecturers in government polytechnics, senior scientific officers, assistant conservators of forests, and various administrative and technical posts.

"This isn't natural justice. Put us in the dock of an inquiry; prove it to us. You can't just remove us like this. This is a total 'arbitrary decree.' The government must take it back. If they don't, we will go to court," one of the protesters told ANI.

"We didn't get these jobs as 'charity'; we got them through a court order. Some of us left other jobs, while others could not appear for document verification elsewhere because they had this job. We came based on the judgment that if we are clean, we stay. You cannot weigh everyone with the same scale," he added.

Another protester alleged that the government decided to scrap the examinations under pressure.

"Do what you must, but do not commit such an injustice against us," he said.

"We were appointed following a Supreme Court order, and now the courts are our only recourse for justice," he said, describing the government's decision as arbitrary and ill-conceived.

Meanwhile, students protesting alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations are scheduled to meet on Wednesday to decide whether to continue their agitation, as the state government has not yet accepted their demand for a CBI investigation.

Student leader Ravindra Paswan said the details of the judicial inquiry mentioned in the government's notification were not entirely clear.

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