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PPSC need not give info under RTI, rules SC
R Sedhuraman
Legal Correspondent

New Delhi, September 2
Setting aside a Punjab and Haryana High Court verdict, the Supreme Court has ruled that the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) need not allow candidates to have unrestricted access to examination records under the Right to Information (RTI) Act.

A three-member Bench headed by Chief Justice SH Kapadia passed the order yesterday on petitions filed by PPSC and its former member Jaspinder Singh Jakhar, challenging the March 29, 2006 HC order.

The HC had directed the PPSC to provide information to a candidate who contended that he had stood first in the 1993 examination for the post of Punjab Civil Service (PCS) Executive after the written test and interview. However, the results were subsequently fudged due to his father’s political affiliation and under pressure from then Chief Minister it was alleged. He had sought the court’s permission to inspect the original records of the written exam and the interview to check whether the marks had been corrected/overwritten before being fed into the computer.

The candidate contended that he had come to know of the bungling from none other than Jakhar, who was on the interview board, after he had ceased to be its member.

The apex court Bench, which included Justices KS Radhakrishnan and Swatanter Kumar, allowed the special leave petitions filed by the PPSC and Jhakar, represented by counsel Shyam Dewan and Bimal Roy Jad.

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