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Delhi fireman held for ₹12 lakh ChatGPT cheating racket
Delhi Police on Friday arrested a firefighter from Chandigarh as the alleged kingpin of an interstate cheating racket that used ChatGPT and concealed electronics to help candidates pass government recruitment exams. The…
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Delhi Police on Friday arrested a firefighter from Chandigarh as the alleged kingpin of an interstate cheating racket that used ChatGPT and concealed electronics to help candidates pass government recruitment exams. The syndicate charged up to ₹12 lakh per candidate, supplying customised phones, Bluetooth devices, and nano earbuds to relay answers from a car converted into a mobile control room. Seven people have been arrested, including two candidates caught during a Sanskrit University LDC exam in Delhi on May 26. One arrested intermediary, Sanni, had already secured a job at Delhi University’s Lady Irwin College through the same method, police said. Authorities are now alerting institutions to take action against fraudulent appointees.
The Indian Opinion
The usual hot takes will paint this as proof that AI has made cheating unstoppable or that government exams are a farce. Neither fits. The racket was caught because a woman candidate was frisked, old-fashioned vigilance. The mastermind, a firefighter, turned a car into a control room. That is a modus operandi, not a system failure. The real test is how many of the 213 candidates who wrote that exam for six vacancies actually got jobs through fraud. Delhi Police has started notifying institutions. Watch for the number of dismissals, not the headlines.
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