Overview
- The Crime Branch has issued a fresh summons asking PSC chairman M R Baiju to appear for questioning and has directed him to attend on November 10, 2026.
- A state‑constituted SIT found that 10 descriptive Economics questions worth 58 marks were not assigned to evaluators because of an error in the On‑Screen Marking (OSM) system, leaving those answers unevaluated.
- A revaluation triggered by a candidate complaint changed the rankings in the Planning Board exam, moving complainant Shyam Krishna from third to first and pushing Arun J Pradeep from first to fifth.
- Investigators have arrested Deputy Secretary P Satheesh and Additional Secretary R Hari, and the Crime Branch has registered three more cases as it expands its review of other PSC recruitment exams.
- The PSC has filed a petition seeking to quash the investigation and the chairman previously skipped a scheduled interrogation on that basis, so prosecutors may now press for his cooperation or seek court direction.