India, Feb. 18 -- A commission that probed the recruitment of bureaucrats and police officers in Assam through 2013 and 2014 Combined Competitive Exams (CCEs) has found jobs were "available for sale" for a few lakh to Rs.50 lakh, making a mockery of the selection process.

Justice (retired) Biplab Kumar Sharma Commission's two reports were tabled in the Assam assembly on Monday three years after the first of them was submitted. It submitted its report on the 2013 exam in April 2022 and the one on 2014 in October 2023.

The panel said the Assam Public Service Commission (APSC) was reduced to a private guild and an employment agency for providing jobs "in lieu of money and other extraneous considerations". It added the sanctity of the const...