HC rejects bail pleas of IAS officer, 13 others in BSSC paper leak

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Patna : Patna High Court on December 6, 2017, rejected the bail petitions of 14 persons including former Chairman, Bihar Staff Selection Commission (BSSC) chairman, Sudhir Kumar, who are in jail in connection with leakage of question paper of a clerical grade examination in February 2017. Sudhir Kumar is a 1987 batch IAS officer.

A single bench of Patna High Court presided by Justice Prabhat Kumar Jha dismissed the bail petitions of the 14 accused including Sudhir Kumar, his sister-in-law Manju Kumari, a government school teacher Atal Kumar, a former data operator Avinash Kumar, and the then IT manager, BSSC, Niti Ranjan.

Bihar government had on February 8 cancelled the BSSC examination held on February 5 to fill up the clerical posts in the state administration in the wake of reports of the paper leak before the examination. Sudhir Kumar was arrested from Jharkhand on February 24, 2017, by a Special Investigation Team (SIT).