After HC bins plea, OPSC declares OJS prelims results

Cuttack: Odisha Public Service Commission (OPSC) declared results of Odisha Judicial Service – (Preliminary) Examination – 2023 on Friday, a day after the Orissa high court refused to entertain a petition seeking cancellation of the test on grounds of erroneous questions.
The OPSC is conducting OJS-2023 examination for recruitment of civil judge (senior division) against 34 vacant posts, 11 of which are reserved for women.The preliminary examination by way of objective type questions was held on June 22.
In the notification issued on Friday, OPSC said 680 candidates qualified for OJS (Main)–2023 written examination. Of the successful candidates, 403 were women. The main examination is likely in October or November.
Six candidates, who appeared for the preliminary examination, filed the petition seeking direction to OPSC to conduct the preliminary examination afresh or to grant grace marks for incorrect questions.
However, when it was submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the result of the examination has not been yet published, the two-judge bench of Justice S K Sahoo and Justice Chittaranjan Dash dismissed the petition on Thursday.
The bench said, “Since, no result has yet been published, we are not inclined to entertain this writ petition.”
The petition hinged on the contention that 15 questions in the preliminary examination were either incorrectly framed or wrong answer-keys were provided to such questions.
In some questions, there was more than one correct option, while some questions were also incomplete and a few also came from outside the prescribed syllabus.