India, Jan. 22 -- When the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) started conducting examinations in 1999 for recruitment to posts like Mantralaya assistants, sales tax inspectors and police sub-inspectors, few would have anticipated that the alleged irregularities surrounding those tests would still be under judicial scrutiny more than two decades later.

In early 2026, the prosecution is still leading evidence in the case - witness by witness, document by document - in what has become one of Maharashtra's longest-running corruption trials.

The first signs of irregularities emerged at the preliminary examination stage. Discrepancies were detected in the question paper, prompting the MPSC to take the unusual step of declaring all c...