The Prison Investigation Division (CID) of the Karnataka Police has arrested a 26-year-old who secured the primary rank amongst ladies within the Kalyana Karnataka area in a police sub-inspector (PSI) recruitment examination held in October 2021.
The CID police arrested Supriya Hundekar within the Kalaburagi area on Wednesday after investigations revealed that Hundekar, who secured the primary rank amongst ladies within the Kalyana Karnataka area, had cheated within the examination through the use of a Bluetooth gadget which related her to an affiliate who supplied solutions.
Hundekar is the 53rd candidate to be arrested within the PSI recruitment rip-off, by which 103 individuals have been arrested to date. Hundekar obtained 131.25 marks out of 150 within the goal a number of selection query (MCQ) part of the examination and 24/50 marks within the essay.
With Hundekar’s arrest, the CID has now arrested the first-rank winners throughout all however one class within the PSI recruitment examination rip-off that started unravelling in April 2022.
The general first-rank winner Kushal Kumar who received 167.75 marks (137.25 in MCQ and 30.5 in essay), the general first-rank winner amongst ladies Rachana Hanamant (153.25 marks – 128.25 in MCQ and 25 in essay), the first-rank winner amongst in-service males Gajendra B (155 marks – 126 in MCQ and 29 in essay), the first-rank winner amongst males for the Kalyana Karnataka area Bhagavantray Jogur (167.375 marks – 129.375 in MCQ and 38 in essay) and the first-rank winner amongst Kalyana Karnataka in-service candidates Hayyali Desai (138.87 marks – 121.87 in MCQ and 17 in essay) have been arrested.
Three ladies candidates who gained choice within the in-service class for the Kalyana Karnataka area have remained unscathed within the examination rip-off.
Whereas Hundekar and Jogur are alleged to have cheated utilizing Bluetooth gadgets, others allegedly scored excessive marks after their papers had been tampered with on the police recruitment cell or with the assistance of invigilators in some examination centres in Kalaburagi.
The Karnataka police have used a mathematical likelihood approach, usually utilized in banking exams, to weed out extra cheats who wrote the PSI recruitment examination that was held on October 3, 2021, to pick 545 PSIs from over 54,000 candidates who wrote the written examination at 92 centres in Karnataka.
The CID arrested three PSI examination candidates in October on the idea of working a mathematical likelihood examine on the solutions that the chosen candidates received unsuitable within the MCQ part of the examination. The likelihood examine was run as a preliminary stage of investigation.
The examine revealed that a number of candidates marked the identical 19 selections unsuitable for 19 questions they received unsuitable within the MCQ part of the examination (out of the 100 questions for 150 marks within the examination), confirming a 100 per cent likelihood of them having obtained exterior assist to cheat within the examination.
The three arrested candidates who had been recognized as having given the identical 19 unsuitable solutions to 19 questions within the PSI recruitment examination wrote the examination in three separate centres in three separate areas in Karnataka – Bengaluru, Tumkur, and Dharwad.
The dishonest likelihood examine was adopted up with cell tower knowledge evaluation for the utilization of cellphones on the examination centres on October 3, 2021, to corroborate findings that the three candidates obtained exterior assist by means of Bluetooth gadgets they took into examination halls.
A civil contractor from Kalaburagi with political connections, R D Patil, is taken into account to be the kingpin behind the utilization of Bluetooth gadgets by candidates to cheat within the PSI recruitment examination. Patil allegedly arrange answering groups at completely different areas within the state – outfitted with the solutions to the MCQ a part of the examination and linked to the candidates.
Earlier in August this yr, the evaluation of mobile phone utilization knowledge from cell towers protecting three faculties that served as centres for the PSI recruitment examination in Kalaburagi metropolis unravelled the identities of seven candidates who cheated within the examination by receiving solutions for questions by means of Bluetooth gadgets they smuggled into the examination halls.
The CID probe has discovered that candidates who had paid Patil Rs 30 lakh to Rs 80 lakh to be chosen as PSIs had been supplied entry to members of the answering crew. The answering crew members supplied solutions to the candidates they had been paired with through the Bluetooth gadgets carried by the candidates. A number of members of the answering crew have been arrested.
The police had been capable of corroborate the id of candidates concerned in dishonest by discovering the individuals towards whose names the SIM playing cards used for lengthy conversations in the course of the exams – extracted from the cell tower knowledge – had been registered.
Out of a complete of 545 candidates chosen from over 54,000 candidates, a complete of 53 candidates have been arrested with 20 candidates discovered to have cheated through the use of Bluetooth gadgets and 33 others by means of the tampering of their reply scripts by officers of the police recruitment cell itself or employees at examination centres.
An IPS officer of the rank of Extra Director Normal of Police, Amrit Paul, who headed the police recruitment cell when the rip-off occurred was arrested by the CID on July 4.