UPSC denies goof up, says IAS aspirant Manjunath did not qualify prelims

New Delhi: IAS aspirant Manjunath, who had committed suicide over an alleged goof up in the civil service exams results, did not even qualify in the preliminary exams, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) said on Monday. The UPSC, which conducts the prestigious examination to select IAS, IPS and IFS among others, on Monday denied that there was any error in the final results as reported in the media. [caption id=“attachment_777811” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  IAS aspirant Manjunath. Ibnlive[/caption] According to UPSC, a candidate by the name of V Y Manjunath, son of Yadav Murthy VP, had applied for Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination, 2012. “He was allotted roll no 538950 and was allotted Bangalore centre for this examination. The candidate had actually appeared from this centre under roll no 538950. However, he has failed to qualify in the Civil Services (Prelim) Examination, 2012,” the Commission said. Hence VY Manjunath, having not qualified the preliminary examination was not a candidate for the Civil Services (Main) Examination and accordingly could not have appeared for the mains and subsequent interview as claimed in a section of the press, it said. It is also confirmed from our records that no candidate with this roll number (538950) or with the name (Manjunath V Y) had appeared for the Civil Services Main Examination or the interview, the UPSC said. The 24-year-old Manjunath, a resident of Shrirampura in Bangalore, had allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in an under construction building on May 10 after he had left for his friend’s house in Kodagu area, police had said. According to police, he was upset over a ‘goof-up’ in the UPSC results. Manjunath was upset over finding a different name under his roll number in the list of selected candidates in this year’s civil services examination, the police had said. The victim had secured 264th rank in the examination, but in the final results after the interview, a different name was mentioned under his roll number on the list, the police had said. PTI