Police claimed to have busted a “highly sophisticated” racket wherein an imposter examinee seems for a examination utilizing a string of hidden units to speak with the paper solver seated 500 km away in Aurangabad.
According to police, an incident associated to the racket came about in February final yr with some arrests instantly thereafter, however the mind behind the racket was arrested on February 28 this yr.
An FIR had been booked in Nagpur following the arrest of a person, recognized as Indrajit Borkar, who cleared the examination for clerical put up in cooperatives, advertising and marketing and textiles division of the state authorities in February 2020, scoring 178 marks out of 200 to emerge because the topper.
Police mentioned Borkar was caught when the authorities cross-checked his {photograph} with CCTV footage on the examination centre, when his signature on the day of the submission of papers didn’t match with the one on the reply sheet. The man within the CCTV footage was not Borkar, police added.
Police additional mentioned Borkar, nonetheless, didn’t immediately know the imposter, with no less than three intermediaries additionally working within the racket.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone I) Noorul Hasan mentioned, “The imposter, Pratapsingh Dhondiram Dulhat, was arrested in Aurangabad when he was going to appear for the exam for a clerical post in the health department for someone else in Pune.”
“Dulhat was hiding a Bluetooth device inside his ear, which was connected to a mobile tucked inside his underwear. He also had a spy camera and a mobile phone behind his T-shirt’s buttonhole, from where it would take pictures of the question paper every four seconds and send them by email to one, Poonamsingh Sundarade, at Aurangabad. Sundarade was also accompanied by one, Premsingh Rajput, a clerk with National Highways Authority of India. Sundarade would search for the answers on Google and narrate them to the imposter on his Bluetooth device,” Hasan mentioned.
Hasan additional mentioned, “We had scanned the call details of Borkar and his father Vasant to zero in on 10 numbers. One of these 10 numbers was that of Dulhat, whom we managed to apprehend at Aurangabad by tracking his mobile number.”
Asked if Borkar knew Dulhat, Hasan mentioned, “No. There were at least four persons in the chain leading to Dulhat and Rajput.”
“Rajput is currently on anticipatory bail, which we will get cancelled from court,” Hasan mentioned.
