Long Walk Ahead for applicants as Div. Bench of Patna High Court to hear BPSC,53-55th PT case on Jan,9

Chief Justice Miss Rekha Manharlal Doshit

Patna, Jan, 7: It seems that the legal web is not going to end soon for the aspirants of 53-55th Civil services examination conducted by BPSC as the applicants moved ahead with their LPA to the division bench of Patna High court that include Hon’ble Chief Justice Miss Rekha Manharlal Doshit and Justice B P Verma against the verdict given by Justice A K Tripathi on Wednesday.

The matter will be placed for hearing in front of division bench on Monday-Jan-9.Senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra will represent the case with the prayer that nine marks will be added in the marks of unsuccessful student and cut off will remain same as it is and then additional result will be declared.

Earlier single bench of Patna high Court headed by Justice Tripathi has directed the BPSC in his verdict that a fairer approach to the whole problem would be by permitting BPSC to carry out a fresh evaluation of all the answer sheets of the PT on the basis of their stand emerging from the opinion of the second expert group it will amount to a fair evaluation of all the candidates without giving any unfair advantage to either successful candidates or the unsuccessful ones because they will all be tested on a common platform.

In fact this is one of the reasons why this Court is not accepted the submission of some of the counsels that as many marks should be added to all the candidates treating them as correct answers to the incorrect questions. In the minds of court such an approach will make no difference to the final standing of the successful candidates whose results have been declared.

Justice Tripathi comes to a conclusion that the BPSC should now re-declare the result of the preliminary examination after a fresh evaluation on the basis of the recommendations of the second expert committee and that should form the basis for conduct of the mains examination which is yet to follow.

It is made clear that none of the successful candidates earlier declared successful on the basis of declaration of the result would be ousted from the list of such candidates who will be entitled to sit for the mains examination. If the exercise brings in more candidates within the zone of successful candidates by being permitted to sit for the mains examination, so be it, but the exercise shall not be done to the detriment of any of the successful candidates.

Court has also considered earlier judgment of various cases across the country in this context while pronouncing the verdict.

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Legal Battle moves next stage as students moves to division bench of Patna high court against the judgment in BPSC case

Patna, Jan, 6: It seems that the legal battle not going to end sooner for the aspirants of BPSC 53-55th Civil services examination as dissatisfied students approached with their LPA to the division bench comprising Hon’ble Chief Justice Miss Rekha Manharlal Doshit and Justice B P Verma against the judgment given by Justice A K Tripathi on Wednesday.

The matter will be listed in front of division bench on Jan-9.Students approached to bench through senior advocate Manan Kumar Mishra with the prayer that nine marks will be added in the marks of unsuccessful student and cut off will remain same and then result will be published.

Earlier Justice Tripathi has directed the BPSC to exempt the successful candidate and evaluate the papers of students as per new model answer provided by the 2nd expert committee and publish some result.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Discloses his Assets

Patna, Jan,5: The leader hailed to be the top in  his governance  is now front runner for the prestigious Gates Innovation Award .

Bihar Chief Minister Mr. Nitish Kumar has set the example as
he marched ahead with his transparency drive in Bihar politics. However, while accepting Mr.Kumar's efforts to be clean and progressive, it must be noted that India’s club of crorepati ministers is consistently becoming wider.

The recent information made in public domain on the wealth of ministers in Bihar, the number of crorepati ministers rises and it has reported more than doubled with respect to a year ago.

There were five crorepatis in 2010, the new list reveals that 12 out of 29 ministers in the Bihar cabinet have made it to the list of crorepati ministers this year.

Nitish Kumar’s call for transparency yet to impressed all as 130 MLAs did not meet the December 31 deadline made for revealing their assets.

 As per disclosure Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has Rs 6, 15,662 as bank balance, a flat worth Rs/40 lakh in New Delhi and a car as well. He also holds 30 tolas of gold and five kg silver utensils in addition to the declared two cows and three calves worth 83,000. His son Nishant Kumar has unveiled assets worth  Rs 7360126.28 and land worth Rs 42,69,404.Nitish Kumar and Nishant  Kumar total asset is worth  1,62,45,192, up from 1,50,64,199 last year.

 The Deputy CM of Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi having wealth Rs 1,17,33,228 adding his wife’s and son’s assets. He was holding worth 1, 06, and 80,314 in 2010.

In December 2011 when Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan asked his ministers to disclose their assets, only 16 out of 40 ministers revealed their wealth details.

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India strongly Opposes, US over Map goof up

Washington: United States has placed a new controversial map of India reflecting its long standing official position on the country's geographical boundaries along Pakistan, its spokesman of US Department acknowledged of having made a " goof up" in this regard, which had resulted in a strong opposition from New Delhi.

"We made a goof and we fixed it and we're now back in compliance with our own cartographical policy," US spokesperson Victoria Nuland told media at her daily news conference as she also said that the department is working in to correct the maps of India on the website of the State’s and its travel related sites. 

The previous controversial maps, which reflected the parts of Jammu and Kashmir as part of Pakistan, was  taken back by the US Authorities in November 2011 after India's strong objection.

India strongly maintains that the entire Jammu and Kashmir is the integral part of the country.

"I'm thrilled and relieved to tell you that we have now put the revised maps up on our website," she said.

"What you will see when you look at these maps is that they reflect the fact that the United States takes no position on the dispute and urges all the parties to seek a peaceful resolution to resolving the claims," she said.

"What you'll see on the maps is consistent with what the U.S. geographic position has been consistently: that there is a dashed line representing the 1972 Line of Control, reflecting Kashmir's unresolved status," Nuland said.

"We neglected to actually label that dotted line in the last round of maps. It has now been labeled. The maps also add our standard disclaimer with regard to Kashmir that says that names and boundary representations are not necessarily authoritative. As I said, that reflects the fact that this is in dispute and the U.S. takes no position on the dispute," she said.

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Patna High Court Pronounced his verdict in BPSC 53-55 PT Case

To giving big relief to the successful students in 53-55 PT Examination in its much awaited judgment Patna high court directed BPSC to reevaluate the answer sheet of PT examination on the basis of the model answer given by the second expert committee.

Order also directed the BPSC to exempt the successful candidate as they have already filled their mains form.

According to interpretation of this judgment few thousand new candidates will get qualified as per affidavit  filed by BPSC in the court.

BPSC has also got green signal to conduct the mains examination with this judgment.

Copy of the Judgment:
Contributed by :Rakesh Verma

http://patnahighcourt.bih.nic.in/judgment/pdf.aspx?ord=7&noc=15&caseno1=13022&yr=2011