Judgment

Dr. Anand, J.-Special leave granted.

2. Union Public Service Commission (hereinafter the UPSC), appellant herein, conducted Indian Forest Service Examination for 1992. One of the centres for the examination was the Urdu-Hall sub-centre at Hyd­erabad. Respondent No. 1 appeared as a candidate and took the examina­tion from the said hall. On September, 27, 1993 the UPSC sent to the Joint Director, CBI, a complaint alleging the use of unfair means at the examination by respondent No. 1 in collusion with the supervisor incharge of the said centre-respondent No. 2. It was pointed out by the UPSC in the complaint that it had received a pseudonymous letter disclosing that answer sheets were written by the candidate-respondent No. 1 at a specified address in Gandhi Nagar, Hyderabad, outside the examination hall. It was also stated that the UPSC had found certain factors suggesting a nexus between the candidate-respondent No. 1 and the supervisor incharge, after an examination of answer books, answer sheets, attendance list, attendance sheet, sitting plan and certain other documents. It was then stated that respondent No. 1 appears to have adopted the same modus operandi on an earl