Three more candidates who had appeared for the same test are wanted for cheating, said officials of Azad Maidan police station.
Mumbai Police had conducted their recruitment drive for 8,070 posts – 7,076 of constables and 994 of drivers. Over 78,500 candidates had appeared for the written exam at 213 centres in the city on May 7.
Four candidates, including the arrested teenager, had come under the radar after examiners found that their answers were correct but they had been written in an incorrect sequence. “For example, Manisha was supposed to write certain answers under colou ‘A’, but she had written them in column ‘C’. The same was the case with the other candidates,” said said investigation officer Praveen Pawle of Azad Maidan police station.
The police expressed suspicion of a racket involving a syndicate guiding the aspirants by helping them to cheat.
“Different examination centres had been issued questions in different sequences, but whoever was guiding them by dictating answeres through the electronics devices was unaware of the different sets of question papers at different centres,” said the investigation officer.
If not for the jumbled sequence of answers, the candiateshad answered the questions very well and scored well, said the police.
Senior inspector Nitin Tadakhe of Azad Maidan police station said that during scrutiny, a board set up to inquire into this found many flaws.
He also said that they had sought the help of the cellurlar network service provider and found out that the candidates had received calls and were constantly on their mobile phone during the exam period.
