Supreme Court lists today a plea to move Jharkhand civil-services prelims from State CID to CBI — without seeking cancellation on media reports alone.

The Supreme Court listed for Monday, 24 August 2026, a writ under Article 32 seeking an independent, time-bound Central Bureau of Investigation probe into alleged malpractices in the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Preliminary Competitive Examination–2025. The petitioner is activist Harisharan Devgan; advocate Satyam Singh Rajput appears. The bench is Chief Justice of India Surya Kant with Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V. Mohana. A listed hearing is not a finding of malpractice. It is a date on the cause list.

The examination was conducted by the Jharkhand Public Service Commission pursuant to Advertisement No. 01/2026 on 19 April 2026. Recruitment, on one public account, is to 103 posts. The plea seeks transfer of the investigation from the State Crime Investigation Department to the Central Bureau of Investigation, and preservation of physical and digital evidence — original and candidate-held optical-mark-recognition carbon copies, closed-circuit television footage, and server audit logs. Those are the reliefs sought in the writ. They are not court orders until the bench issues them.

The petitioner does not seek cancellation of the examination merely on media reports or allegations. The writ asks that integrity first be determined by an independent investigation. That sequencing is deliberate on the petition: investigate first, decide cancellation later if the evidence warrants. It is not a Supreme Court direction until the bench writes.

Background on the Commission’s own track is separate from what Monday’s plea seeks. Results were declared on 2 July 2026. A candidate’s optical-mark-recognition carbon copy went viral alleging evaluation irregularity. Three Jharkhand Public Service Commission members have resigned. The State government has agreed to cancel the 14th Jharkhand Public Service Commission Combined Civil Services preliminary examination — that is the government’s notified stand, distinct from the Central Bureau of Investigation transfer the writ seeks. Job aspirants agitated for twenty-six days; protests were temporarily suspended on 19 August. A State cancellation decision and a Central Bureau of Investigation transfer prayer can sit on the same exam without being the same legal ask.

New Delhi holds the Supreme Court listing. Ranchi holds the Commission and the State investigation geography. Form B and any poll date are not notified. This desk will not invent a bench order, a stay on counselling, or a fresh answer key the tip does not lock.

Until the bench speaks, the public ledger is a Monday Article 32 listing before the Chief Justice of India and two companion judges, a request to move the file from the State Crime Investigation Department to the Central Bureau of Investigation, evidence-preservation prayers covering optical-mark-recognition sheets and server logs, a petitioner who refuses cancellation on media reports alone, a government stand already agreeing to cancel the 14th preliminary, three member resignations, a viral carbon-copy allegation dated after the 2 July results, and a twenty-six-day aspirants’ agitation paused on 19 August. The listed hearing decides none of that yet.