{
 "no": 51,
 "id": "case-51",
 "sk": 20180221,
 "year": 2018,
 "date": "Feb 2018 leak, still leaking in 2026",
 "cat": "Exam integrity",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "SSC. The exam that leaked, and kept leaking",
 "stamp": "Chargesheets, no convictions",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>30.26 lakh</b> registered for CGL 2017 and <b>15.4 lakh</b> sat Tier-I; <b>1.5 lakh</b> reached the paper that leaked; the final result came <b>nearly three years</b> after the notification",
  "est": false
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Never costed. The bill is paid in working years lost per delayed cycle; the 2024 anti-cheating law caps a service provider's fine at <b>₹1 cr</b>",
  "est": true
 },
 "what": "Questions from the Combined Graduate Level Tier-II paper of 21 February 2018 circulated on social media during the exam window. Candidates occupied the pavement outside the Commission's Delhi office from 27 February until the SSC agreed to recommend a CBI enquiry. The CBI found both a pre-exam leak and remote-access software running on candidates' machines, but said it could not identify everyone who benefited.",
 "dodge": "The Supreme Court declined to scrap the exam in March 2020, leaving it to a criminal court where no conviction has followed. No SSC or DoPT official was held responsible. The machinery still fails: in February 2026 the UP and Uttarakhand STFs found two laptops and a router in a 24-inch underground chamber in the server room of an SSC exam centre, used to solve papers remotely at ₹10 lakh a candidate. It was booked under state law, the BNS and the IT Act, not under the central anti-cheating Act the government passed in 2024.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Ministry of Personnel (DoPT)",
   "r": "Administrative control of the SSC; no official held responsible"
  },
  {
   "n": "Staff Selection Commission",
   "r": "Conducting body; recommended a CBI probe, announced no internal accountability"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government notes it ordered a CBI enquiry within a week of the protests, re-held the affected paper and accepted the Justice G.S. Singhvi committee's reform recommendations, and that the Supreme Court itself declined to find the exam conclusively tainted. The SSC says its 2025 vendor handled only logistics, not question-setting, and that affected candidates were re-tested.",
 "alleg": "Protester claims that the 2025 exam vendor was blacklisted or linked to Vyapam are denied by the SSC and remain <em>unverified</em>.",
 "alt": "A published CBI outcome with named accountability, a statutory deadline between exam and appointment, and the 2024 Act actually invoked when a centre is caught.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "SSC recommends CBI probe, 2018",
   "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ssc-decides-to-recommend-cbi-probe-into-paper-leaks/article22925056.ece",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "SC refuses to scrap CGL 2017",
   "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/paper-leak-case-sc-refuses-to-scrap-ssc-cgle-exam-of-2017-120030501427_1.html",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250419191151/https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/paper-leak-case-sc-refuses-to-scrap-ssc-cgle-exam-of-2017-120030501427_1.html"
  },
  {
   "label": "Final result, three years late",
   "url": "https://indianexpress.com/article/jobs/ssc-cgl-2017-final-result-today-ssc-nic-in-6120823/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20191219083139/https://indianexpress.com/article/jobs/ssc-cgl-2017-final-result-today-ssc-nic-in-6120823/"
  },
  {
   "label": "Aspirants protest new vendor, 2025",
   "url": "https://theprint.in/india/faulty-systems-poor-infra-to-mistreatment-protesting-aspirants-allege-ssc-played-with-their-future/2709705/",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20250801065104/https://theprint.in/india/faulty-systems-poor-infra-to-mistreatment-protesting-aspirants-allege-ssc-played-with-their-future/2709705/"
  }
 ],
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-51/"
}