Rejecting the allegation of question paper leakage and irregularities in recruitment test for Class III and IV employees at Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Panchagarh, the judicial administration has claimed that some outsiders, who applications were rejected due to different faults, have been raising such allegations to postpone the recruiting process.
However, the Panchagarh Chief Judicial Magistrate has suspended the tests due to the allegation and chaotic situation created by the aspiring candidates attended the written test center of Panchagarh’s Moqbular Rahman Government College on December 20.
In a press release issued on Monday, District Legal Aid Officer Liment Roy, also a senior assistant judge, blamed the college’s principal for the mismanagement in holding the written tests due to his negligence.
In the release, he claimed that the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court requested to the college authority to take necessary measures to arrange the written test for recruiting the Class III and IV employees for the office on December 20 and 21.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Mehedi Hassan Mandol himself visited the college, talked to the college principal and Recruitment Committee Member Secretary Senior Judicial Magistrate Md. Ashrafuzzaman on December 15. Later, two officials – an assistant judge and a judicial magistrate – went to the college and finalized the seat plan for the examinations on December 19.
But, the examinees could not enter into two rooms of the college as the keyman of the two rooms were absent in the ground. When contacted, the principal told them that the employee who keeps the keys is on leave and he took away the keys. As a result, they aspiring examinees of the two rooms could not enter the rooms till beginning of the exams. They started rumpus along with those whose applications were cancelled. At one stage, the authority postponed the recruitment test, it stated.
The release also claimed that the college principal has already been asked to explain the matter of keeping the two rooms locked despite the request of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court.
Protests erupted on Friday (December 20) during the examination, with candidates boycotting the written test, citing question leaks, corruption, and mismanagement.
Demanding a fair examination process, the candidates confined the judge and other officials of the test centre for three hours.
Subsequently, the recruitment committee suspended all tests, citing "unavoidable circumstances."
Approximately 1,000 candidates were expected for the bench assistant and gardener posts on the first day.
