Nagpur’s Bajaj Nagar Police have busted an exam racket wherein scamsters seemed to have taken a cue from the movie Munna Bhai MBBS? to crack government competitive exams with help of hi-tech gadgets and dummy candidates. The information about the same was shared by Noorul Hasan (DCP Zone I) and Police Inspector (Crime) Varsha Gaikwad on Thursday during a press conference at Bajaj Nagar police station.

The police have booked six persons and arrested two of them with respect to the crime. Those who have been booked include: Indrajit Borkar (29), Keshav Borkar (60), (both from Waghapur in Yavatmal and currently staying in Nagpur), Hansraj Mohan Rathod (62, a resident of Digras), Premsingh Ramsingh Rajput (29, a resident of Aurangabad), Pratapsingh Dhondiram Dulhat (25, a resident of Badnapur in Jalna district) and Punamsingh Harsingh Sundarde (34, a resident of Aurangabad). All of the accused have been booked under sections 419, 420, 468 and 471 of the IPC. Dulhat and Sundarde have been arrested by the police.

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DCP Hasan and Inspector Gaikwad also revealed how it busted the racket. On February 23, 2020, Indrajit appeared in an examination held at Dr Ambedkar College in Nagpur for the posts of junior clerk and deputy accounts inspector. The exam was conducted by the Maharashtra Department of Co-operation, Marketing and Textiles. Indrajit scored 178 out of 200 in the exam.

Later, on March 11, 2020, Indrajit was called in by the department for scrutiny of original documents. During the verification, officials noted that Indrajit’s signature was different that the signature on the attendance sheet of the exam. Video footage of the exam revealed that somebody else had appeared instead of Indrajit for the exam. Indrajit too confessed the same in front of department officials. Later, Divisional Joint Registrar for Co-operative societies (Audit) lodged a complaint about the same at Bajaj Nagar police station.

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When Bajaj Nagar police arrested Indrajit on March 12, it came to the fore that Indrajit’s father Keshav, with the help of Rathod, got a dummy candidate to appear for the exam for his son Indrajit. Rathod was arrested on March 13, 2020. When the cops questioned Rathod, he told them that the dummy candidate was arranged through Rajput. Before cops could get to Rajput, he fled. Later, Rajput and Keshav got anticipatory bail from a court.

Bajaj Nagar police team under the guidance of DCP Hasan keot investigating the matter and were finally able to learn that Dulhat was the dummy candidate. Dulhat was arrested on February 28, 2021 while he was going to appear for another exam as a dummy candidate. On questioning Dulhat, he told cops that Sundarde was his accomplice. Sundarde was later arrested as well.

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DCP Hasan also revealed the modus Operandi of Dulhat and Sundarde. As per the police, Dulhat would be the dummy candidate appearing for exam. While in the exam hall, he would carry a phone with a spy camera? app installed on it. He would wear his attire and place keep the smartphone in a way, which would lead the cellphone camera to click pictures of the question paper. These pictures were automatically sent to a tab, which would be operated by Sundarde. Sundarde would use another device to find answers to the questions later dictate them to Dulhat who would listen to the answers through a tiny Bluetooth earpiece.