Rajasthan HC cancels peon recruitment result over zero-mark selection row

Key points

• The Rajasthan High Court has cancelled the result of the state’s massive Class IV recruitment drive after questioning the logic behind selecting candidates with zero marks while rejecting applicants who scored in negative numbers.
• The court also directed the Rajasthan Staff Selection Board to frame a clear minimum qualifying marks rule for the examination.
• The case relates to Rajasthan’s fourth-grade recruitment examination conducted for 53,749 posts.
• The exam was held in September 2025 and the result was declared on January 16, 2026. Read Full Story The recruitment had attracted huge attention as many job seekers in Rajasthan had been waiting for years for a large-scale peon recruitment drive.
• WHY THE COURT INTERVENED The controversy began after several candidates under reserved categories such as differently-abled, widow, divorced women, e servicemen and Saharia quota were declared successful despite scoring zero marks in the exam.