UPSC Mulls Action As Both Aspirants Claiming Selection Turn Out Fake

Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has issued a clarification that two aspirants have been fraudulently claiming to have been recommended by the UPSC in the Civil Services Examination, 2022, against two roll numbers of genuinely recommended candidates with similar names.

Dismissing the claims of both the candidates as fake, UPSC said they have forged the documents in their favour to buttress their claims. It said its system is robust as well as foolproof and such errors are not possible. UPSC is now contemplating both criminal as well as disciplinary penal action against both candidates for their fraudulent acts.

The results of the exam were declared a few days ago. An aspirant Ayesha Fatima, daughter of Naziruddin, with roll number 7811744 secured AIR 184. However, another candidate with the same name Ayesha Makrani, daughter of Salimmuddin Makrani, with roll number 7805064 claimed that she is the person who has been selected.

But, sharing the details of both the candidates, UPSC has refuted Makrani's claim, clarifying that she has not only failed to qualify in General Studies Paper-II by scoring only 21.09 marks but has also scored far less marks (22.22) as agains the cut-off mark (88.22) of Paper-I.

Similarly, Tushar Kumar, son of Ashwini Kumar Singh from Bihar, with roll number 1521306 is a genuine candidate and has secured AIR 44, whereas another Tushar, son of Brijmohan from Rewari in Haryana, with roll number 2208860 has falsely claimed to be the genuine one.

He has not only secured minus marks (-22.89) marks in Paper-1 but also got much less marks (44.73) in Paper-II against the least requirement of 66 marks. He also failed at the Preliminary stage itself and did not move further to the next stages at all.

In its clarification, UPSC has said that the two candidates making the false claims have "acted in contravention of the provisions of the rules of Civil Services Examination, 2022," and hence liable to be prosecuted under the law.

The cases have been reported widely in the media. In the statement, UPSC has pointed out that it was unprofessional of one of the media channels which irresponsibly reported that UPSC has corrected its mistake in one of the cases and is investigating the matter as to how such an error occurred.

Reiterating that its system is efficient and competent enough to eliminate any such errors of the alleged nature, UPSC said the media should verify the genuineness of such claims directly from it before broadcasting or publishing news of such fake claims.