He, however, reiterated that the planned Assembly gherao would proceed if the talks failed to produce a satisfactory outcome. The purpose of this gherao is to press for the students' demands. The development comes amid protests over alleged irregularities in the Jharkhand Public Service Commission (JPSC), JSSC CGL and other recruitment examinations. The students are demanding cancellation of the examinations, an independent probe into the alleged irregularities and reforms in the state's recruitment process. Earlier, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested five more people in connection with the alleged recruitment examination irregularities, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 19.