chandigarh following detection of a blunder in the question paper of the punjab state teachers eligibility test pstet 2023 that had many correct answers of a subject marked in bold punjab chief minister chief minister on monday ordered suspension of two professors of guru nanak dev university gndu amritsar apart from this state education minister harjot singh bains ordered an inquiry into the irregularities and said the examination would be reconducted without any feesaction was taken against hardeep singh professor with the department of computer science and ravinder singh sawhney professor with the department of electronics technology of the universitythe pstet had 150 multiplechoice questions and candidates who appeared for the social studies test on sunday had alleged that one of the options in almost over 50 questions of the total 60 questions were in the bold font which could have helped candidates choose the right answers many such question papers were uploaded on social media mann tweeted that he had also directed the police to immediately arrest those responsible for the irregularities in the tet exam he said the goofup was a fraud with the careers of the youth and such breach of trust will not be tolerated later mann in a press statement said that the state government was dutybound to ensure that the guilty in this case were put behind bars at the earliest the education minister harjot bains issued an order that a timebound inquiry be conducted by a principal secretarylevel officer and a criminal case should be registered against the perpetrators of the crime bains instructed the gndu to conduct the paper again as soon as possible without charging any fee he directed the officials of the school education department to incorporate a clause in the contract with the third party regarding conduct of the examination on behalf of the department saying that if any irregularities are found then the executing agency or organisation will pay suitable compensation to the students