Jaipur, April 19 -- Candidates selected in the Rajasthan Police sub-inspector recruitment exam-2021 have filed a special leave petition, challenging the Rajasthan high court's April 4 order to cancel the test over large-scale paper leak allegations. One petitioner, selected candidate Vikram Pawar, said: "We have demanded [in the petition] to not cancel the entire exam as it is question of our future. We have already been in training for three years. Only the ones who qualified the exam fraudulently should be removed." On April 4, a division bench of the Rajasthan high court, comprising acting chief justice Sanjeev Prakash Sharma and justice Sangeeta Sharma, upheld the HC's 2025 order of cancelling the 2021 sub-inspector recruitment exam, aimed at filling 859 posts, rejecting pleas from the state government and selected candidates. On August 28, 2025, the HC's single bench, consisting justice Sameer Jain, cancelled the exam over large-level paper leak allegations across the state prompting the Special Operation Group (SOG) to arrest at least 122 people since March 2024. Following the April 4 order, the unsuccessful candidates filed a caveat petition in the Supreme Court on April 9 against any move to overturn the cancellation. "The caveat has been filed on behalf of petitioners and unsuccessful candidates Kailash Chandra Sharma and Pramod Kumar. The petitioners stated in the caveat that if the state government or any selected candidate files an SLP in the Supreme Court against the High Court's decision, they should also be heard, and no interim or final order should be passed without hearing them," said advocate for the unsuccessful candidates. The successful candidates filed a special leave petition on Friday, challenging the HC's 2025 order to cancel the exams. While upholding the cancellation of the Rajasthan Police Sub-Inspector Recruitment Examination-2021, the division bench on April 4 also made sharp observations about the scale of irregularities, the functioning of the Rajasthan Public Service Commission, and the broader impact on public trust and governance. "The investigation further discloses that leaked papers were circulated to countless candidates through multiple intermediaries, several beneficiaries are yet to be identified, and investigation under Section 173(8) CrPC remains pending against 89 accused persons, including trainee Sub-Inspectors," the court said. The court rejected arguments that only directly identified beneficiaries should face punishment, while allowing the rest to proceed. "In such circumstances, the Court is unable to accept the contention that a meaningful segregation between tainted and untainted candidates is either feasible or reliable." The bench further noted that the SOG had initially recommended cancelling the entire exam, and the passage of time only reinforced that the process was deeply compromised....