about 6 lakh aspirants including the petitioners herein are likely to appear in the captioned civil services preliminary examination which is a seven hours offline examination in very few centres at 72 cities across indiameanwhile covid19 cases are increasing in india at an alarming rate of more than 80000 cases per day said the pleathe plea argued that the worst affected by the conducting the civil services preliminary examination 2020 on october 4 will be the students belonging to the middle class or lower middle classthe privileged may still appear in these exams without worrying about transport accommodation or other expenses however the underprivileged students will be forced to suffer utmost injustice and deprivations the petitioners contendedthe plea said the decision of the upsc to conduct the exam in this current scenario violates the rights of the petitioners and those similarly situated under article 19 1 g of the constitution