Four days police custody to civil service aspirant in case relating to alleged cheating in civil services (main) examination - 2013

New Delhi, May 2, 2014: The Central Bureau of Investigation has yesterday (Evening) arrested a Civil Service Aspirant (a resident of Delhi) in a case relating to an alleged cheating in the Civil Services(Main) Examination - 2013.
The arrested accused was produced today in the Court of CMM (Central), Delhi and was remanded to four days police custody.
A case was registered on the allegations of cheating by certain civil service aspirants in the prestigious Civil Services (Main) Examination 2013. These Civil Service aspirants used ingenious ways by taking recourse to the latest technological developments in the field of information technology.
The unique modus operandi adopted by one such Civil Service aspirant (a resident of Delhi), and also a candidate in the examination, was that he had used customised clandestine communication equipment with regular popular mobile applications like Whats app.
He also used a wrist watch-like looking device to clandestinely copy the question papers during the Civil Service (Main) Examination on various dates in December, 2013 to transmit them using blue-tooth enabled mobile telephony equipment to his team of solvers who were stationed at his apartment. The team of solvers (also Civil Service aspirants) then obtained answers, including through recourse to popular on-line websites on the Internet like Wikipedia, etc. and transmitted the same to him using mobile telephony equipment.
Searches were carried out in several locations yesterday at Delhi, which led to the recovery of several IT-enabled equipments, including mobile phones; two laptops; (including one MacBook); Customised innerwear to enable concealment of transmission wires; Bluetooth devices; Clandestine high-powered micro-cameras couched in wrist watches & mullets and Digital storage devices like detachable hard disks, pen drives, etc. Further investigation is continuing.