RANCHI, Sept. 15 -- The Jharkhand High Court on Tuesday maintained its stay on the state government's order cancelling the JPSC 11-13 civil service and JSSC-CGL recruitment examinations, affecting the regular jobs of over 2,000 state government employees working across the state.

JPSC 11-13 refers to the 11th, 12th, and 13th Combined Civil Services Examination conducted simultaneously by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) to fill accumulated state-level administrative and executive vacancies across those three batch years.

People aware of the development said Justice Deepak Roshan's court slammed the state's action as arbitrary and high-handed, while criticising the sluggish CID probe. Rejecting the government's request for ...