Bikaner: The Rajasthan Eligibility Examination for Teachers (REET) recently was witness to a number of bizarre incidents with applicants resorting to extreme measures such as fitting Bluetooth devices in slippers to cheat during the test.
The Rajasthan Police seized the Bluetooth devices hidden in the slippers of several REET examinees while the accused were detained. Some had even paid up to Rs 6 lakh to get hold of these Bluetooth-fitted slippers.
Despite heavy security arrangements, the REET examinees could not be deterred from resorting to unfair means to take the examination. In Ajmer’s Kishangarh, a candidate took a Bluetooth device to the examination centre by hiding it in his slippers.
However, even before he could sit for the exam, the police caught hold of him and are now conducting a thorough probe. The Ajmer District Superintendent of Police has issued orders for all applicants to remove slippers 200 metres away from the examination centres.
With several such incidents being reported from across Rajasthan on Sunday, stringent security measures were imposed, including suspension of mobile internet services in some districts to prevent cheating.
Five people were arrested in Bikaner after they were allegedly found wearing slippers fitted with Bluetooth devices to resort to unfair means in the examination for the selection of teachers.
Several other dummy candidates were also arrested in different districts. Two head constables and one constable too were suspended for their alleged involvement in facilitating the cheating by examinees.
Conducted by the Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, the exam was held in two shifts at 3,993 centres set up across 33 districts. As many as 16.51 lakh candidates had enrolled themselves for it.
Bikaner’s Superintendent of Police Priti Chandra said five people were arrested in the Gangashahar police station area for trying to cheat in the exam.
Among them, three were REET aspirants who were found wearing slippers fitted with a small calling device connected with a SIM card. A tiny, barely visible Bluetooth-enabled device was found fitted in candidates’ ears,.
Two of those arrested were gang members who gave the candidates slippers each costing Rs 6 lakh.
