From brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law to extended relatives, a startling cluster of candidates allegedly linked to arrested JSSC CGL BSO Abhay Kumar Tiwari has secured positions in the same recruitment process. As the alleged Rs 40-crore examination syndicate comes under investigation, Jharkhand’s aspiring youth are left asking one question: if government jobs are allegedly cornered by a connected few, where does that leave the ordinary student?
For a young aspirant in Jharkhand, clearing a government examination is supposed to be the culmination of years of sacrifice. It means waking up before sunrise, spending years buried in books, attending coaching classes, travelling long distances to examination centres and repeatedly attempting competitive examinations with the hope that one day a government job will change the family’s future.
Following the arrest of Abhay Kumar Tiwari, a Jharkhand government employee and Block Supply Officer who is being investigated by the state CID in connection with alleged irregularities in competitive examinations.
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What makes the controversy particularly explosive is not merely Tiwari’s alleged role in an examination racket. It is the alleged concentration of successful candidates among people connected to him.
What was supposed to be a competitive examination appears, according to allegations circulating in the case, to have turned into a bizarre exercise in “family welfare” where one relative after another allegedly found a place among the successful candidates.
The allegations surrounding the JSSC CGL BSO examination name a striking list of individuals said to be related to Tiwari through different branches of his family. The alleged connections include his brother, brother-in-law, sisters-in-law and extended relatives.
Among those named are:
1. Abhay Kumar Tiwari — secured a rank for the JSSC CGL BSO post.
2. Tiwari’s brother-in-law — his wife’s brother, also allegedly secured a BSO rank.
3. Tiwari’s brother — allegedly secured a BSO rank.
4. Tiwari’s sister-in-law — his brother’s wife, allegedly secured a BSO rank.
5. Another sister-in-law — his wife’s sister, allegedly secured a BSO rank.
The list then extends into the wider family network.
6. Upendra Mishra — BSO Rank 51, alleged to be Tiwari’s maternal cousin.
7. Tejanarayan Pandit — BSO Rank 68, alleged to have a family connection through Tiwari’s paternal uncle.
8. Bapi Kumar Mishra — BSO Rank 124, alleged to be connected through Tiwari’s extended maternal family and also related to Bikram Pandey.
9. Bikram Pandey — BSO Rank 127, alleged to be connected to Tiwari through his brother-in-law’s maternal family.
10. Sumit Kumar Tiwari — BSO Rank 143, alleged to be the nephew of Tiwari’s brother-in-law.
If these relationships are established and the selections are found to have involved manipulation, the matter would represent something far more serious than an ordinary examination irregularity. It would point towards the alleged capture of a public recruitment process by a network of connected individuals.
The JSSC CGL examination is meant to provide an equal opportunity to thousands of young people competing for a limited number of government posts. Instead, the allegations have created an image of a recruitment process in which family connections allegedly became more valuable than merit.
The controversy becomes even more serious with allegations of an organised examination syndicate allegedly worth around Rs 40 crore. The figure remains an allegation and must be established through investigation. But the very nature of the allegations demands that investigators follow the money trail.
Reports and complaints have alleged that candidates were promised selection in competitive examinations in return for payments running into Rs 25 lakh to Rs 40 lakh.
Tiwari’s own examination history has added another layer to the controversy.
Before his arrest, he appeared to be what every competitive-examination aspirant dreams of becoming a serial qualifier.
He reportedly cleared a remarkable number of examinations, including the 2018 Police Sub-Inspector examination, the Navy’s 2013 SAR examination, the 2014 BARC Assistant examination, the IRB Constable examination, the CRPF Head Constable written and typing examinations, the Northern Coalfields Limited preliminary examination, JSSC Postgraduate Trained Teacher and Combined Graduate Level examinations and several JPSC examinations.
He also reportedly qualified for examinations for Assistant Conservator of Forests, Forest Range Officer and Food Safety Officer, besides the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Examination.
His record could have made him an inspiration to millions of aspirants. Instead, investigators are now examining whether his extraordinary record was connected in any way to the alleged examination network. A recent report citing the investigation said Tiwari secured Rank 2 in JSSC CGL 2023, while the CID is examining his repeated successes and alleged links to examination manipulation.
The alleged network becomes even more significant because of Tiwari’s reported past association with TSR Data Processing Private Limited, a Lucknow-based testing agency.
Tiwari had reportedly worked with the company as a marketing manager before entering government service. The agency later came under scrutiny over examination-related irregularities, and its director Ramvir Singh has also been arrested in connection with the JPSC investigation.
