Thirty-seven candidates, who appeared for the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) Grade-3 examinations, were arrested for allegedly using high tech jackets and gadgets enabling them to cheat in the exam centres, police said today.
With the arrest of the accused on Sunday, the Bhopal police claims to have busted a Haryana-based racket which offered high-tech techniques to the exam seekers to cheat, the police said.
The gang leaders have been identified as Ravi, Raju and Satish, who operated a Jhajjar-based Institute in Haryana which trained and enabled them for cheating.
The arrested candidates confessed to have used high-tech electronic equipment to transmit question papers to gang leaders in Haryana who allegedly transmitted back answers to questions after finding answers from a study guide, Chhattarpur's Superintendent of Police (SP) Lalit Shakyawar said.
Students wore spectacles with in-built cameras through which question papers were allegedly transmitted to gang leaders in Haryana through electronic devices with a SIM card neatly inserted in their vests, the SP said.
Bluetooth devices were inserted deep into ears of the candidates taking examinations and electronic receivers were inserted into their shirt collars, the SP said.
The police took 79 candidates into custody on Nov 2 from Chhattarpur, Rewa, Khandwa, Bhopal and Guna cities of Madhya Pradesh.
Out of 52 candidates taken into custody from Rewa, 40 of them were released later as no evidence was found against them, Rewa's City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Bharat Dube said.
Among those taken into custody, 37 candidates are from Haryana, while there is one each from Rajasthan and Delhi, the police said, adding that all of them have been arrested.
Dube said that the arrested candidates revealed that they paid Rs four lakh each, to those running the racket and their high-tech shirts and vests were prepared by a tailor in Delhi.
