The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the CBI to file the case diary and the status report of the investigation in the 2017 SSC exam paper leak case. A bench of Justices S.A. Bobde, S.K.Kaul and Indira Banerjee said that it will take up the matter for hearing on April 11.
Advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for the petitioner Shantanu Kumar, submitted that the court had earlier directed the CBI to file the status report but no fresh report has been filed.
The SC on April 1 allowed the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) to declare the result of a re-examination of SSC Combined Graduate Level (CGL) 2017 held last year.
It also set up a high powered committee comprising Nandan Nilekani, a co-founder of tech giant Infosys, and renowned computer scientist Vijay P. Bhatkar to suggest reforms iconduct of examinations.
The examination papers of the SSC CGL 2017 were allegedly leaked, leading to huge protests. Amid the protests, the SSC had recommended a CBI probe into the allegations of paper leak.
On August 31 last year, the SC stayed the declaration of result of the SSC CGL and CHSL Examination, in which lakhs of students had appeared, saying it seemed that the entire test and the system was “tainted”.
The court then favoured cancelling the 2017 SSC examination, and holding it afresh by the National Testing Agency or the CBSE.
However, the Centre said that there was no need for re-examination of entire paper as the leak was “extremely localised” and those behind the leaks were identified and action was
