Civil Services Rank Controversy: UPSC Finds Ayasha Makrani's Claim False, Another Similar Case In Haryana
Bringing an end to the Ayasha vs Ayasha controversy, in which two women with the same first name had staked the claim for the 184th rank in the Civil Services exam, the UPSC has found that one of them had forged her documents.
Two girls from Madhya Pradesh, Ayasha Fatima from Dewas district and Ayasha Makrani from Alirajpur district, had claimed roll number - 7811744, which got the 184th rank belonged to them.
How?Ayasha Makrani faked her UPSC rank
However, an investigation by the UPSC found that the claims made by Ayasha Makrani from Alirajpur were fake.
According to the UPSC, Aysha Makrani, daughter of Salimmuddin Makrani, had appeared for the Civil Services examination, but her actual roll number is 7805064.?
She appeared in the preliminary examination held on June 5th, 2022 and scored only 22.22 marks in General Studies Paper-I and 21.09 marks in General Studies Paper-II.
"As per the requirement of Examination Rules, she was required to score at least 66 marks in Paper-II. She has not only failed to qualify in Paper-II but scored far less marks than the cut-off marks of Paper-I, which were 88.22 for unreserved category for the preliminary examination of the year 2022," the UPSC said.
Hence, Aysha Makrani has failed at the stage of the preliminary examination itself and could not move further in next stages of the examination, it added.
On the other hand, Ayasha Fatima, daughter of Naziruddin, bearing roll number 7811744, is the genuine candidate who has been recommended by the UPSC, securing 184th rank in the final result of the civil services examination, 2022", the UPSC said in a statement.
From the start, dependencies on her admit card, including the wrong date, description, and QR code, indicated that Ayasha Makrani's claim could be fake.
Another rank faker in Haryana?
The UPSC also said that a similar incident was also reported from Haryana, where one Tushar, son of Brijmohan from Rewari, had claimed the 44th rank.
Tushar had applied for the civil services (preliminary) examination in 2022 and was allotted roll number 2208860.
He appeared in the preliminary examination and scored minus 22.89 (i.e. -22.89) marks in General Studies Paper-I and 44.73 marks in General Studies Paper-II, the UPSC said.
As per the requirement of Examination Rules, he was required to score at least 66 marks in Paper-II, it said.
Thus, Tushar failed at the preliminary examination stage and could not move further in the next stages of the examination.
"On the other hand, it is confirmed that Tushar Kumar, son of Ashwini Kumar Singh, bearing roll number 1521306, of state of Bihar is the genuine candidate, who has been recommended by the UPSC at 44th rank," the statement said.
Action to be taken against both
"The claims of both persons are fake. They have forged the documents in their favour to buttress their claims," said the statement issued on Friday.
By doing so, both Makrani and Tushar have acted in contravention of the provisions of the Rules of the Civil Services Examination, 2022 notified by the government of India (Department of Personnel and Training), it said.
Therefore, in accordance with the provisions of the Examination Rules, the UPSC is contemplating both criminal as well as disciplinary penal action against the two candidates for their fraudulent acts, the statement said.
"The system of the UPSC is robust as well as foolproof and such errors are not possible," it added.
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