CBI probe sought into Arunachal Pradesh PSC CE-2017 as well

A CORRESPONDENT

ITANAGAR: In view of the CBI inquiry into the recent Assistant Engineers Examination conducted by the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC), the aggrieved candidates of APPSC CE-2017 have urged the State Government to revisit and initiate an investigation against the 2017 fiasco.

Tadak Nalo, one of the aggrieved candidates, claimed that there should also be a CBI inquiry in APPSCCE-2017, which was another controversial examination conducted by the Commission.

Moreover, there should be an inquiry against the then Members, Chairman and officials of the APPSC, as well as Investigation Officers (police) he added.

"We all have witnessed the fiasco of 2017, how the Commission made mistakes but hundreds of candidates had to bear the consequences. In the first instance, the Court issued a judgment in the favor of candidates, but later on due to unprecedented documents and reports of the Commission; we lost the case," asserted Nalo.

"However, one of the alleged accused Minoty Borang was also from 2017 batch, so now our fights against the Commission have been proven right now that we were genuine. We know that there are more people like Minoty Borrang in 2017 incident also, so we urge the authority to reopen the case of APPSC CE-2017," he said.

While appreciating the Capital police's SIC for arresting at least five people in the initial stage of the case, aggrieved candidates also expressed their resentment and questioned the authority as to why no officials higher than the rank of Taket Jerang was arrested or investigated yet. He said that they were certain that there are more high-level people involved in the paper leakage issue, and so there should be a proper inquiry on the whole episode from top to bottom.

Further, Nalo also claimed that the whistleblower of AE examination had lodged an FIR on August 28, but the police authority avoided registering the case for at least two weeks.

He also questioned the investigation authority for not taking any action against JeJu institute as one of the accused was a faculty of the institute. The institute itself is in doubt now, as it is known that there are many candidates from the said institute who cleared the different APPSC examinations.

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