Orisha High Court has set aside Odisha Judicial Service (OJS)-2015 (prelim) examinations and directed Odisha Public Service Commission(OPSC) to conduct the examinations afresh. The examination was held on May 31st this year and around 2000 law students had appeared in it for recruitment to 69 posts of civil judges.
About 18 OJS aspirants had approached the High Court seeking judicial intervention, alleging that as many 26 out of 100 questions in the examination were either wrong, out of syllabus or contained typographical and grammatical errors.
Adjudicating over a batch of petitions, Justice BR Sarangi quashed the preliminary examinations and directed OPSC to conduct it afresh within six weeks. The Court also asked OPSC to hold the main examination within four weeks after publication of the preliminary examination results.