UP CM Yogi Adityanath Cancels Police Constable Exam 2024 After Paper Leak – News18

The exam will be conducted for the second time in August 2024.

More than 48 lakh applications were received as compared to 60,244 vacancies for the UP Police Constable Recruitment 2024.

The UP Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPBPB) had announced the recruitment examination, which was considered to be a crucial process for the filling of reported vacant posts of constable in the state. An entrance test was held on February 17 and 18 this year for the recruitment of 60,244 posts in the police department. For the last seven days, UP police examination was in the campfire of storms that were related to controversies. Now Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced its cancellation.

The UP Police Recruitment Exam will be conducted for the second time in August 2024. On social media, the UP Police Paper Leak Issue reached its peak. It’s possible to wave stricter governance at examination centres in UP Police Re Exam 2024. Particular actions will be taken so that no such event as the circulation of the UP Police answer key should ever happen again.

“It is not a matter of compromise with integrity of examinations. Dishonest who cause harm to the dedication of freshest will not be absolved under any conditions. Strictest action is inevitable to be executed against such unsubmissive elements” said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Lucknow Police have submitted a First Information Report (FIR) as hundreds of protesters from all over Uttar Pradesh press for a retest for the exam, which allegedly had its paper leaked. Eliminating candidates accused that the sanctity of the test was impaired since a question paper was released on social media just a couple of hours before the exam.

More than 48 lakh applications were received as compared to 60,244 vacancies for the UP Police Constable Recruitment 2024. Out of all vacancies, over 80 candidates are applying for a single position.

The civil service candidates have been taking part in protests in almost every corner of Uttar Pradesh from February 19 up to this moment on the issue of the alleged paper leak in the RO/ARO preliminary exam. On Friday, the protestors gathered at the gates of the Public Service Commission of Uttar Pradesh in Prayagraj to demand the cancellation of the exam and the removal of Chairman Sanjay Srinet, who is accused of impropriety in establishing exam centres.