Patna, April 22: Patna High Court today directed the state government and Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) to file their replies within two weeks on a petition seeking a direction to the commission to publish a fresh result of preliminary test (PT) of 27th Bihar Judicial Services 2009 conducted by it.

A bench of Chief Justice Rekha M. Doshit and Justice Jyoti Saran gave both the commission and the state time till May 5 to file their replies after additional-advocate general (AAG) Lalit Kishore sought time of 10 days in this regard.

The AAG, however, assured the court that the commission, in the meantime, is not going to take any further step.

The court was hearing a bunch of petitions filed by Pankaj Kumar, Ranjeev Kumar, Ranjeet Ranjan and others — some of the unsuccessful candidates of PT exam — who contended that the commission has published results after deleting 25 out of 250 questions asked in the PT, which is a glaring example of malafide exercise of power.

The petition filed through advocate Kumar Brijnandan submitted that the commission, which published the result after almost 15 months of the exam, did not notify prior to the publication of the result that 25 questions have been deleted which is a glaring example of malafide exercise of power.

Aggrieved and shocked by the unwarranted and arbitrary publication of the preliminary result of the PT exam, a representation was filed before the commission and other authorities concerned for rectification of the mistakes/anomalies committed during the preparation of the result but the representation was not considered by them, Pankaj Kumar, said in his petition.

HC take on bodies

The high court today sought response from the state government and railways on a PIL seeking direction to provide proper treatment and disposal of unclaimed bodies in the state.

A bench of Justice S.K. Katriar and Justice Samrendra Pratap Singh asked both state and railways to file their counter affidavits within six months and posted the matter for hearing after summer vacation.

During the course of the hearing, Guddu Baba, the petitioner-in-person, showed the court the photographs taken on April 20 depicting the ill-treatment meted out to the dead in the state capital while taking them to the Patna Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem from the Patna railway station.