The Railway Ministry has cancelled all pending departmental selections on Group C posts

New Delhi: Because of flaws in the selection process, the Railway Ministry canceled all departmental choices for Group C jobs that were not finalized and authorized by March 4.

The Railway Ministry stated, “Due to several irregularities noticed in the departmental selections in the recent past, it has been decided to revisit the departmental selection framework and all the pending selections/LDCES/GDCES (within Group ‘C’) that have not been finalized and approved by 04.03.2025 may be treated as cancelled.”

“Until more orders are received, no further choices may be made. The Ministry of Railways said that further guidelines to control the choices will be released soon.

The decision followed the arrest of 26 railway personnel from the East Central Railway in Mughal Sarai, Uttar Pradesh, by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on suspicion of leaking the results of a departmental examination.

Cash totaling Rs. 1.17 crore was recovered after searches were carried out at eight different sites. According to reports, these sums were obtained from the applicants in exchange for their question paper leaks. They confiscated the handwritten question sheets and their photocopies. The CBI was included after these question papers were compared to the original, genuine question paper and verified to match.

According to the agency’s statement, up to 17 Departmental applicants who are now employed as Loco Pilots paid for the question paper and were discovered in possession of copies of it on the night of March 3–4, 2025. They’ve all been taken into custody.

The senior DEE (Ops) employee who was charged was tasked with creating and preparing the exam’s question paper, based on the CBI’s findings so far. He reportedly handed the English-language questions he had written down to a Loco Pilot, who translated them into Hindi before giving them to an Office Superintendent (Trg). The applicants reportedly received it from the aforementioned OS (Trg.) via a few other railway employees.