Failed candidate rejects PCS mechanism

Civil judge exam

PESHAWAR: A lawyer on Tuesday alleged that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission had committed many mistakes in the marking of his examination papers and asked chairman of the selecting body and chief justice Supreme Court to issue orders for crosschecking of his papers.

Speaking at a press conference here, Arshad Saeed advocate, who is topper of his department in legal studies, said the commission conducted examination for 125 posts of civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate a few months back.

He said that 104 candidates, including him, were declared successful in written examination. He said he was declared failed in the examination by a margin of two marks for getting aggregate of 425 out of 850.

However, he was later awarded two marks to achieve the aggregate without checking his papers by the commission. The lawyer alleged that officials of the commission had warned him of consequences if he exposed the loopholes in the selection body.

He added that he had no trust in the mechanism of papers checking and demanded that the commission should open his papers in front of judicial officers for re-checking.The lawyer also accused the commission of selecting most of the candidates from Zone-II.He also suggested the provincial and federal governments to ask the commission for making video and audio records of the interviews and examination written papers.