Nitish rules out CBI probe into BSSC exams

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Patna : Opposition members walked out of Bihar assembly on February 28, 2017, protesting against the refusal of CM Nitish Kumar to hold a CBI probe into the Bihar state staff selection commission (BSSC) recruitment examinations. Led by opposition leader Prem Kumar, the BJP members said the government was protecting the corrupt as names of
some ministers and ruling parry leaders had surfaced during the investigations of leakage of question papers of BSSC clerical grade exam which had to be cancelled.
Nitish while replying to the debate on motion of thanks to the Governor for his address to the joint session of Bihar legislature on February 24, said he was not in politics to either frame someone or to protect anyone. Ruling out CBI probe into the scam as demanded by the Bihar chapter of IAS Officers’ Association and opposition, the CM said his experience was that the cases were handed over to the CBI to hush up and cited example of murder case of Ranveer Sena chief Brahmeshwar Mukhiya.

Nitish also warned the IAS officers that in Indian Constitution only Rashtrapati was exempted from investigations. He was reacting to the protest of IAS officers over arrest of BSSC chairman Sudhir Kumar by special investigation  team of Bihar police on February 23 night. “I will read the contents the IAS association memorandum word by word and would act in an appropriate manner,” the CM said.

The chief minister said he had asked the DGP and Home secretary to  act on the complaint of a dalit girl, who had met him and complained of her sexual exploitation by a leading trader of the town. The CM announced the government employees would get benefit of the 7th Pay Revision Commission after receipt of the report of G S Kang committee entrusted with task of setting fitment scales of the employees.