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Four Haryana candidates arrested for cheating with modified devices in Mumbai exam
Four Haryana candidates arrested for cheating with modified devices in Mumbai exam
Four candidates from Haryana were arrested for cheating with seven modified mobile devices during a Central Sanskrit University non-teaching written exam at Kendriya Vidyalaya in IIT-Powai on August 9. The Powai police…
The Story in Brief
Four candidates from Haryana were arrested for cheating with seven modified mobile devices during a Central Sanskrit University non-teaching written exam at Kendriya Vidyalaya in IIT-Powai on August 9. The Powai police said the devices were bare circuit boards without screens or keyboards, with a micro-camera disguised as a shirt button and Bluetooth earbuds inserted deep into the ear canal. Doctors had to extract one Bluetooth device stuck in a suspect’s ear.
The suspects, identified as Devendra Singh, Bhoop Singh, Ravi Singh and Ravindra Singh, were sent to jail for 14 days after completing five days of police custody. Police inspector Ganesh Patil said no paper leak was uncovered. Investigators are tracing those who supplied the devices and checking if a larger criminal network is involved. Three unidentified individuals discarded similar devices outside the exam hall after the arrests.
The Indian Opinion
Media breathlessness over 'cyber cheating' at a Sanskrit university exam overlooks a basic fact: the suspects were caught because they struggled against jammers, not because the devices were sophisticated. The real story is the desperation driving young men from Haryana to travel hundreds of kilometres with homemade circuit boards for a guard or peon job. Instead of moral panic over tech-aided cheating, ask why a Group D post attracts such elaborate fraud. The answer will say more about India's job crisis than about exam integrity.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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