Plea In Supreme Court Seeks Cancellation Of BPSC-Main 2025 Exam Over Alleged Paper Leak

A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Bihar Public Services Commission (BPSC) Exams 2025 over alleged paper leak. 

The counsel for the petitioner mentioned the matter before CJI Sanjiv Khanna for urgent listing saying that the exam is scheduled to commence soon. 

The Counsel said: "My lords, there is a plea by BPSC students who have been affected by paper leak, their exams are on 24th (April)." 

CJI replied that the matter would be listed after the mentioning note was put before him. 

Notably, the BPSC 70th Main Exam is scheduled to begin from April 25 and will conclude on April 30, 2025. 

In January, the bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna, Justice Sanjay Kumar and Justice KV Vishvanathan dismissed a plea seeking the cancellation of the 70th Combined Competitive Exams (preliminary) conducted by the Bihar Public Services Commission (BPSC) on the grounds of an alleged paper leak.

About The BPSC Paper Leak Issue

Notably, the issue arises out of the alleged paper leak for the 70th Combined Competitive Exams (preliminary) conducted by the Bihar Public Services Commission (BPSC). The exams were given by nearly 5 lakh candidates across 900 centres on December 13, 2024. The allegation of the paper leak resulted in subsequent protests led by the leader of the Jan Suraaj Party, Prashant Kishore who went on an indefinite hunger strike on January 2.

The protestors have demanded for cancellation of the entire exam and conducting it afresh. These demands were floated after the BPSC allowed a re-test of only 10,000 candidates who had been assigned the Bapu Pariksha Parisar exam centre where the alleged leak occurred.