Jorhat, March 20: A candidate who failed to qualify for a job in the Upper Assam commissioner’s office today alleged wrongdoing and favouritism in the selection process.

The candidate, Amir Abbas Zahedi, told reporters here that he had procured the details of the selection process through an RTI where it has come to light that many of his answers which were marked wrong were actually right in the written test in the objective part.

Zahedi alleged that though he had again sought the appointment letters of the two selected candidates through an RTI so that his petition for re-evaluation of the answer scripts can be admitted in the high court, he still has not been given any from the Upper Assam commissioner’s office.

Citing a few examples, Zahedi showed that one of the persons who was selected in the general category was given marks for a few wrong answers whereas he was not given marks for right answers.

“These are objective-type questions and there is no scope of a wrong answer being given right. This clearly shows a marked bias against me by the evaluators and favouritism towards him,” Zahedi said.

Zahedi said in a transcript of a conversation which he had recorded in his cell phone with Upper Assam commissioner S.I. Hussain in which he had pointed out such anomalies, the commissioner had asked him to apply for UPSC and ACS and try for posts of labour commissioner or a tax superintendent and that in this job he would have no job satisfaction.

“It is not for the commissioner to say what job would give me satisfaction as I am unemployed and badly need a job,” Zahedi said. “If Mr Hussain believes that I am capable of getting a job after clearing APSC and UPSC, then how come I did not qualify for a junior assistant’s post? he asked.

Hussain said suo moto he could not order a re-evaluation which would have to come from a legal authority as the candidates had been selected by a selection committee of which ADC Tanuj Goswami was the chairman but he did want justice to prevail.

Goswami said the answer scripts had been evaluated in a single day at the UAC’s office by 12 teachers provided by the inspector of schools’ office.

Regarding non-receipt of the RTI material which had been filed on February 13 by Zahedi, Goswami said the two appointment letters along with the answers as to whether the selected candidates were related by blood or matrimony to a staff of the UAC’s office, had been dispatched by post on March 12. “If the post office has not delivered the same by now he is welcome to come to the office and take a duplicate from here,” Goswami said.