Overview

• Chairman Ganesh Singh Martolia said recruitment tests covering roughly 5,000 to 5,500 posts will go ahead as planned through June 2026.
• Near-term assessments include exams on October 5 and October 12, followed by the forester physical efficiency test on October 28.
• Candidates must report two hours early for biometric checks and thorough searches at the gate that include removing footwear.
• Centres will be sanitised a day before each exam, guarded until the test begins, and equipped with mobile jammers under coordination with district magistrates and senior police.
• Police said the arrested prime accused, Khalid Malik, confessed to hiding a phone, photographing three pages of a paper, and sending them to his sister during the September 21 Haridwar exam.