Overview
- Thousands of students and job aspirants marched to the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly on Monday as protesters breached multiple police barricades and faced water cannon, tear gas and baton charges.
- The state CID arrested former JPSC chair L Khiangte and three serving JPSC members resigned, while the Enforcement Directorate registered an ECIR under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act to probe alleged financial wrongdoing linked to the exams.
- Protest leaders and hunger strikers demand cancellation of the JSSC-CGL results and a CBI inquiry; they rejected the government’s package of measures that includes cancelling some exams, fast-track courts, expert panels and an ED probe.
- JLKM leader Devendra Nath Mahto and several others remain on indefinite fasts and have continued high-risk protests that have forced heavy security deployments, school closures and the detention of BJP leaders who joined demonstrations.
- The dispute centers on alleged paper leaks and evaluation irregularities involving JPSC, JSSC and a blacklisted contractor called TDPL and raises legal and political questions because some exam actions are tied to court orders and appointments already made.