The Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC) has postponed the Jharkhand Combined Civil Services Main (Written) Competitive Examination 2025 until further orders over alleged irregularities.

The decision was announced through an official press release issued on July 22, just days before the exam was scheduled to begin.

The exam, notified under advertisement number 01/2026, was scheduled to be held in two phases on July 25, 26, and 27 at various exam centers in Ranchi district.

In an official notice, JPSC said, "the Combined State/Upper Subordinate Services Main (Written) Examination-2025 (Advertisement No. 01/2026), originally scheduled from July 25, 2026, to July 27, 2026, is postponed until further notice due to unavoidable circumstances."

The JPSC has also deferred remaining exams listed under the proposed exam schedule in the commission's exam calendar 2026.

Alongside, the state government run CID has arrested five people, including a senior official of the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), for their alleged involvement with the irregularities in various competitive exams. 

The accused are - Shweta Kumari Gupta, the Deputy Controller of Examinations, and Ramveer Singh, the Director of TSR Data Processing Private Limited, and three others, the details of whom were not provided by the CID, as reported by news agency PTI.

They have been booked under multiple sections of the BNS and the Jharkhand Competitive Examination (Measures for Prevention and Remedy of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Act, 2023, the statement said. The five were later sent to judicial custody, it said. An FIR against the accused has been registered at the CID Police Station.