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In a important decision, a Division Bench of the Rajasthan High Court connected Saturday (April 4, 2026) upheld the cancellation of the police Sub-Inspector recruitment introspection of 2021, portion affirming an earlier bid passed by a Single Judge Bench. The exam was quashed connected the grounds of large-scale irregularities and insubstantial leakage.
The Bench, led by Acting Chief Justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma, delivered its judgement portion deciding connected the appeals filed by selected candidates and the State government. The tribunal acceptable speech the suo motu cognisance taken by the Single Judge Bench against immoderate members of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission (RPSC).
In its 211-page judgment, the Division Bench stated that determination should beryllium “no governmental appointments” wrong the Commission, and directed the State authorities to enact a caller instrumentality governing RPSC selection, and guarantee implicit transparency successful the recruitment processes.
“The shortlisting of candidates astatine this signifier is nary longer feasible. Therefore, the Sub-Inspector recruitment introspection of 2021 volition stay cancelled,” the Bench ruled.
The Single Judge Bench of Justice Sameer Jain had connected August 28, 2025 cancelled the introspection aft uncovering large-scale irregularities, insubstantial leakage, impersonation of candidates, and the engagement of immoderate members of the RPSC successful the scam.
The introspection to capable 859 vacancies of Sub-Inspectors and platoon commanders was held successful September 2021. Allegations of wide insubstantial leakage soon surfaced, prompting the State authorities to manus implicit the probe to the Special Operations Group (SOG), which arrested 122 persons, including 55 trainees and 2 members of the RPSC.
The insubstantial leak scam was 1 of the large governmental issues during the 2023 State Assembly election, and some the erstwhile Congress authorities and the contiguous Bharatiya Janata Party authorities faced disapproval implicit the handling of the matter. However, a Cabinet Sub-Committee recommended against cancelling the recruitment process, saying lone 6.3% of examinees were recovered to beryllium tainted by the SOG probe.
The Division Bench had connected September 9, 2025 temporarily stayed the Single Judge Bench bid connected the appeal, and directed that the selected candidates would not beryllium fixed tract postings till further orders. The substance was past taken to the Supreme Court, which asked the Division Bench to present its last judgement wrong 3 months.
