Foiling the attempt of cheating in the exams for ‘Group D’ posts of Railway recruitment board on December 8 at GMSSS-46 Chandigarh, local police have arrested six candidates, who were found using malpractices in the exams. The police are now in search of those who helped the candidates by providing them answer keys prior to the examination.
Rajesh Kalia, DSP Cyber crime said, “we received a secret information regarding leakage of question paper of Railway recruitment board for ‘Group D’ through mobile messages. A team of Cyber cell officials was constituted to watch the activities of the candidates appearing in the examination at various centers of Chandigarh”.
A team deputed at Government Senior Secondary School of sector-46, noticed that some candidates were preparing coded slips which contained answer keys of the question paper. The candidates were identified as Narender Kumar, Devender Singh, Kuldeep Singh, Deepak Ahlawat, Gulab Singh and Dalbir Singh.
“Meanwhile police is searching for those who provided answer keys to these candidates through messages in mobiles and the mobile number from which the candidates received answer keys, has been put on surveillance,” said the DSP.
Cases under section 66 of IT and Section 420 and 120-B of IPC have been registered against all the candidates. On Monday, they were produced in the district court from where five of them were sent for two days police remand and one of them is sent for judicial custody.