Cheating aids used in Punjab naib tehsildar job test; five held

PATIALA: Five people have been arrested for allegedly helping job aspirants cheat in the Punjab naib tehsildar recruitment test held in May, police said on Tuesday. Eleven electronic devices, seven mini bluetooth earbuds, 12 mobiles, a laptop and two pen drives have been seized from the accused, they said.
While three arrested accused are from Patiala, two are from Haryana’s Kurukshetra and Jind. They have been identified as Navraaj Chaudhary and Gurpreet Singh of Dedna village, and Jatinder Singh of Bhullan village in Patiala, Sonu Kumar of Ramna Ramani village in Kurukshetra and Varjinder Singh of Jind.
Patiala range IGP Mukhwinder Singh Chhina, said the accused had some dummy candidates apply for the test and appear for it just so that they could click photos of the question paper with hidden cameras and share them with subject experts in Haryana to solve them. The answers were then conveyed to the actual candidates using electronic devices fitted with sim cards and bluetooth earbuds, he said.
The accused have admitted to their crime. The candidates had concealed these devices in their shoes and socks... they had used signals such as coughing and tapping to convey the test booklet series to the person dictating the answers,” said Chhina. Seven to 10 more pe