The Jharkhand High Court completed its hearing on the state’s decision to cancel the JSSC CGL exam on October 8.
Justice Deepak Roshan reserved the verdict.
The state said the cancellation was based on facts that emerged during an inquiry.
The CID investigation is still going on.
No date has been announced for the judgment.
The Jharkhand High Court completed its hearing on the challenge to the state’s decision to cancel the JSSC CGL exam on Thursday, October 8, 2026, and reserved its verdict.
Justice Deepak Roshan heard the matter for the second consecutive day, and the hearing began at around 11 am.
The state’s arguments, led by senior advocate Meenakshi Arora, ran until about 12:15 pm, according to Prabhat Khabar and Patrika.
Arora read out the state’s counter-affidavit and said that the cancellation was based on facts that emerged during an inquiry.
The CID investigation into the exam process is still going on, the state told the court.
On October 7, the state said that more than 28 people had been arrested, according to ETV Bharat.
The state also submitted a sealed report to the court on October 7.
It argued that, because the probe is ongoing, it is not possible to say which candidates were involved and which are innocent.
The state has described the examination system as suffering from systemic failure, and the court said it cannot ignore that aspect, according to ETV Bharat.
The petitioners argued that there is no proof that the paper leaked from an examination centre.
They said probable questions were given to 28 candidates in Nepal, of whom 10 were selected, and that the High Court’s order withholding those 10 results was upheld by the Supreme Court.
They said the SIT has been investigating for over two years without filing a chargesheet, according to ETV Bharat.
Jharkhand High Court, Ranchi (file image), Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
