Gehlot Demands 2024–25 Exam Probe as Rajasthan CM Says 2019 OMR Manipulation Is Emerging
Recent SOG arrests over alleged OMR tampering have intensified scrutiny of the state's recruitment system.
Overview
- The Special Operations Group recently arrested multiple suspects, including the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board’s technical head, in the OMR-tampering case.
- Former chief minister Ashok Gehlot urged a thorough, impartial review of all 2024 and 2025 recruitment exams, citing SOG findings that wrongdoing stretched from before 2018 through 2026, and the government has not announced such a probe.
- Gehlot said staff implicated in manipulation remained posted at the selection board during 2024–2025, casting doubt on results from those years.
- Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma responded that manipulation in 2019 exams is now being exposed and vowed that no one involved will be spared, while asserting no paper leak occurred under the BJP government.
- Gehlot highlighted a Congress-era anti-paper-leak law with severe penalties and more than 250 SOG arrests, and he cited candidates’ complaints about unusually high cut-offs in recent exams.