Bihar PSC chairman arrested along with eight officials

     Patna: Bihar administration on Thursday arrested the Chairman of Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) and eight other officials of the Commission on the charges of irregularities in the selection of candidates for the administrative service in the State.

    The arrested officials were then produced before special vigilance judge Ram Niwas Prasad, who remanded them to judicial custody till January 10. The State vigilance bureau arrested the BPSC chairman Ramsinghasan Singh, Deputy Secretary Syed Masoom Ali, Kamata Prasad, Sanjiv Kumar, Bhanu Prakash, Vijay Kumar and Ratnesh Prasad, sources said. According to official sources, all the officials were taken into custody for misconduct in the selection of 184 candidates for the Bihar Administrative Service in 2003, whose result was declared in May this year. The nine officials were booked under Sections 420 (cheating), 467 (forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 470 (forging documents) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and the prevention of corruption act.