Itanagar:Irked over the “unresponsive” attitude of the state government in resolving the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Commission (APPSC) paper leakage mess, civil service aspirants on Thursday began a 72-hour hunger strike deman-ding dissolution of the present Commission. The state government had already instituted a magisterial inquiry into the anomaly and forwarded the report to the Commission for action but the aspirants were not satisfied with the action taken and demanded President’s intervention on the issue, a senior govern-ment official said.The state government had ordered a magisterial inquiry in the question paper leakage pertaining to General Studies Paper-II of the Arunachal Pradesh Public Service Combined Competitive Examinations (APPSCCE) (Mains 2014) and appointed a senior APCS officer Hento Karga to inquire into the matter of the alleged leakage.
The report, as submitted by the magistrate, broadly recommended cancellation of the said paper and to conduct examination along with other papers as soon as possible, the official said.It also recommended a criminal proceeding against the persons involved and suspension of four senior officers of the Commission till submission of preliminary report of either police inves-tigation or inquiry officers under CCS conduct rules. (PTI)