NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday restrained the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) from declaring results of the Combined Graduate and Higher Secondary Level Examinations 2017 after the CBI told the court that government officials were allegedly involved in the leak of the question paper for the online test conducted in February this year.

In its status report, CBI told a bench of Justices S A Bobde and L Nageswara Rao that the papers were leaked before the scheduled time of examination and candidates used remote access software for solving them with help from outside. The CBI also said some SSC officials were allegedly involved in the leak and further probe was needed to track the culprits and the candidates who benefited.

The bench, after perusing the report, said the entire examination process seemed to be “tainted” and in such a situation, results could not be declared as many of the candidates who benefited from the leak would land government jobs.

