The Kolar police have busted a gang allegedly involved in clearing competitive exams like PSC, PMT and PET by using advanced technical gadgets across the country. Five persons have been arrested in this connection and 50 admit cards, 35 mark-sheets of class X and XII and specially stitched clothes for the purpose of cheating were recovered.
While speaking with the media, Deputy Inspector General of Bhopal Zone Srinivasa Varma told that the accused Mohit Choudhary was nabbed and when quizzed he accepted to providing means of cheating in the competitive exams and charged in lakhs from clients for the same.
During the investigation, the cheating process came to fore, and they charged around Rs 35 lakh for clearing the two-phase PSC exams. Apart from the money the candidates have to submit his original mark-sheets of class X and class XII as a ‘security’ The possibility of leaking papers could not be ruled out since cheating with the help of communication devices is not possible in the second phase, Varma added.
He further hinted about changing the direction of investigation to find out who all were involved if the papers were leaked.
“Two years ago the accused as nabbed by the Noida police in the same case of helping candidates in cheating using advanced gadgets and the crime branch Delhi has inquired in the case and we have asked them to provide details of the case”, said Anshuman Singh. SP, Bhopal (South).
Explaining the modus operandi, Singh told that it was a two way communication in which the transmitting device was attached in the collar and the candidate used to pass the questions to the expert assigned at the other end. The candidates were provided with clothes in which the mouth piece (blue tooth) device was stitched inside the collar and small hearing aids were used for reception. Singh said.
The offenders nabbed are Savinay Shrivastava (Tikamgarh), Mohit Choudhary, Yogesh Kumar and Rajkumar Yadav (Mughalsarai-UP) and Dhananjay Mehto (Patna-Bihar). The gang has been active for the past three years in the state and it is under the investigation as how many candidates have cleared their exams with the help of them.
The police have registered a case under section 420, 506 and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation.