BANGALORE: The selection of gazetted probationers in 2011 by the Karnataka Public Service Commission (KPSC) was full of anomalies and irregularities, a CID probe has found.

The probe has revealed that Kannada-medium professors evaluated answer scripts written in English; rural development and cooperation papers were evaluated by economics professors; and anthropology papers were assessed by sociology evaluators. This was done even though evaluators of respective subjects were available.A copy of the CID report, submitted to the government on September 10, 2013 — available with TOI — reveals many more shocking irregularities. The answer scripts during the main exam were evaluated by professors and evaluators whose names were not in the list recommended by universities or other approving authorities. “Pliable evaluators were appointed, and in some cases retired personnel were deployed in furtherance of illegal designs,” the report states.Students writing the KPSC exam in 2012 (File photo)The CID got the answer scripts evaluated by professors with eligible qualifications, and “…serious discrepancies were noticed between the marks given by experts and that by the KPSC evaluators,” it said.“Investigators also found that candidates had access to evaluators and had telephonic conversations with them seriously undermining the fairness of the system,” the CID said. The report also pointed out that retotalling of marks on demand from candidates was done unfairly by KPSC to favour some candidates. Also, during retotalling enough evidence was found to show that alterations and overwriting was resorted to. Even before the completion of re-totalling, interviews were conducted and completed, it noted.