Mumbai Police recruitment test: Candidates do a Munnabhai, use ATM and pen with SIM to cheat

Following complaints by invigilators, Meghwadi police booked candidate Nitesh Aarekar, 29 from Beed, Bhandup police booked Bablu Medharwal, 24 from Jalna, Kasturba Marg police booked Ravindra Kale, 33, from Worli, and Goregaon police booked Yuvraj Jarwal, 19 from Aurangabad. Police have also booked those who helped them over the phone to solve the exam papers.
“We had trained the invigilators who were given guidelines to conduct the examination… Due to strict vigil, we managed to detect four cases of cheating,” said deputy commissioner of police Headquarters-2, Tejaswi Satpute, who is executing the massive recruitment drive under superior supervision. One of the accused candidates at a Borivali (East) exam used a special pen with a SIM card hidden inside it, she said.

“The accused candidates used such small microphones that they were fitted inside the ears and could not be even detected during frisking… However, our smart exam invigilators caught them after getting suspicious about their body language,” the DCP said.

One candidate had inserted the microphone so deeply inside his ear that he had to be taken to the hospital to get it removed. A police officer said that considering the sophisticated way with which the cheating was attempted, the possibility of the involvement of members of coaching centres cannot be ruled out.

One of the caught candidates claimed that he spend lakhs of rupees to buy the device for cheating, police said. Another candidate who turned up at an exam centre in Naigaon with a forged hall ticket and fake certificate of physical test with a DCP’s signature was han-ded over to the Bhoiwada police.

The Mumbai Police is conducting recruitment for a total of 8,070 posts, which include 7,076 posts for police constables. A total of 78,522 candidates out of the eligible 83,748 were present for the examination at 213 centres in the city.