Overview
- Three Jharkhand Public Service Commission members — Ajeeta Bhattacharya, Anima Hansda and Jamal Ahmad — resigned on Sunday and Governor Santosh Kumar Gangwar accepted their resignations.
- The state government agreed to cancel three JPSC tests, specifically the 14th JPSC preliminary exam and the JPSC backlog exams for 2023 and 2025, after talks with student delegations.
- The Criminal Investigation Department is leading a criminal probe and has made multiple arrests reported at about 19 people, and the government said it would ask the Enforcement Directorate to examine financial links.
- Officials announced procedural reforms including multi‑stage papers for large exams, random colour coding, computer‑based testing where feasible, a fast‑track court for exam cases and a judicial panel to review some matters, but refused a CBI probe into the JSSC‑CGL exam.
- Students rejected the government's claim that most demands were met, kept six hunger strikers and other protesters in place, and pressed ahead with a planned peaceful march to the Vidhan Sabha under heavy security and prohibitory orders.