The Kerala Public Service Commission (PSC) is facing a fresh complaint over its special recruitment of Deputy Superintendents of Police (DySPs), even as a Crime Branch Special Investigation Team (SIT) probes alleged irregularities in a separate recruitment to a senior post in the State Planning Board, IANS reported on Monday.
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The complaint was lodged by R.S. Sasikumar, chairman of the Save University Campaign Committee, who has sought an investigation into the selection and has taken the matter up with Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan. Sasikumar alleged — as an allegation, not an established finding — that the PSC completed the process at an unusually fast pace: the written examination was held in December last year, the rank list was published in the first week of May, and appointment orders were issued in June.
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Madhyamam, reporting the same complaint a day earlier, said the committee has also written to the Chief Minister and the Home Minister demanding that the first-ranked candidate's training approval and appointment order be withheld. According to that report, applications were invited from around 17,000 candidates in September 2025, the written examination was held on December 25, a physical test followed on March 26, 2026, interviews for 35 candidates were completed on April 26, and the final rank list was published on May 6.
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The complaint further alleges that the first rank was improperly awarded to former SFI leader K.J. Jithin, that candidates who scored higher in the written examination were pushed down by irregularly high interview marks — at an interview attended by PSC Chairman M.R. Baiju — and that several FIRs, including alleged assaults on college principals in Ernakulam district and drunk driving, have been registered against Jithin. Madhyamam noted the allegations have not been independently established. IANS reported Sasikumar's allegation that the first-ranked candidate, an SFI leader, had several criminal cases against him.
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The candidate has rejected the allegations, saying he also figures in the rank lists of other PSC examinations, and has alleged the complaint is intended to prevent his appointment, IANS reported.
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The DySP complaint lands while the wider PSC probe is intensifying. The Crime Branch SIT, constituted by the Satheesan government soon after it took office in May, has already questioned PSC Chairman Dr M.R. Baiju and three members in the Planning Board recruitment case; the remaining 12 members were scheduled to be questioned from Monday, and PSC Secretary Saju George was due to appear before the SIT for a second consecutive day on Monday. All 16 members of the present PSC, including its chairman, were appointed during the previous Pinarayi Vijayan government's tenure, which ended in May this year. The government has maintained the investigation will establish whether recruitment procedures were deliberately manipulated.
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