Hard Work In Vain: Candidates For Gujarat Police Constable Exam Livid As Paper Was Leaked; Now Rescheduled For 6 January

The written exam for the recruitment of Gujarat Police constables was cancelled just a couple of hours before the exam in December 2018, after the authorities came to know that the question paper got leaked. The candidates have expressed anger, shock and disillusionment at the leak.

Candidates like Yogita Bhatti and her sister Bhagwati went to extreme ends to prepare for this exam by riding dump trucks or multi-utility vehicles from their village Panshina to Limdi town to take coaching and wouldn’t go home before dusk. They would be woken up by their father before dawn to run so that they cleared the physical test.

“I felt more for fellow women candidates. I had the comfort that my father was a government servant, though a peon (in a semi-government high school). But I overheard many girls saying their fathers had borrowed money to send them to exam centres and some were almost moved to tears,” said Yogita, expressing her distress, reported Indian Express.

Fifteen people were arrested from Karnataka, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana and Gujarat and investigators have revealed that a Delhi-based gang was involved in the paper leak.

The government had declared 9,713 posts of Armed Lok Rakshak, Unarmed Lok Rakshak and Jail Sipai as up for grabs.

As many as 8.76 lakh candidates were supposed to take the exam on 2 December, but were unable to do so as the paper was cancelled two hours before the exam time. The exam is now scheduled for 6 January (Sunday).