Allahabad HC Appoints Rtd. CJ Govind Mathur To Lead Commission To Probe PCS-J Exam 2022 'Irregularities'

While hearing several pleas concerning the allegations of serious irregularities in the UP-PCSJ 2022 examination, the Allahabad High Court has appointed former Chief Justice Govind Mathur to lead an independent commission to probe into the matter. A bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh has urged the commission to file a report by May 3st, 2025, while making the suggestions on the following issues: Ways and means to make the evaluation process of UPPCS Examination more responsive to the needs of the selection and more trust worthy for all stake holders including the UPPSC Steps to be taken by the Commission to enforce those processes and procedures; Mechanisms to be revised/introduced/applied to check departures and deviations from accepted methods, practices and procedures, prescribed by the Commission; admitted to an error in preparing the merit list for the written examination of 50 PCS-J 2022 candidates. At times fresh marks awarded have not been countersigned by the Examiner; wherever marks have been thus corrected, the same have not been countersigned by any independent authority of the Commission, be it be the Chief Examiner or some other responsible authority; inter-change of Checklist of Master Fake Code was an impermissible blunder question papers particularly in Law, were more theoretical than practical; Model Answer Key particularly for the papers in Law, appear to lean to test the theoretical knowledge of the candidates and they do not appear to lay emphasis to test the ability of the candidates to analyse and reason - the basic attributes of a judge; the Model Answer Key did not provide for scale of marks to be adhered to by all Examiners as may have helped to enforce a uniform scale of marking by considering the level/extent of correctness or error of individual answer responses; quality of evaluation process and the evaluation made are not of desired quality. Accordingly, the Court requested Justice Govind Mathur, former Chief Justice, Allahabad High Court, to accept the Commission specifically with respect to the points noted by the Court in the context of all Answer Booklets of Written Examination of UPPCS -2022.