MEET SAFEER KARIM, THE JAILED IPS OFFICER WHO CAUGHT CHEATING IN UPSC EXAMS

Well, admit this or not, we all have cheated once or twice during exams in our school life. While some manage to pull it off, you must be able to recall those moments when some inspection official caught some student cheating. Also, in those days, cheating in exams used to be in a very old school fashion. Either you could insert a small chit in your shirt sleeve or scribble some notes in your forearm while making sure it was not visible from where the auditor was standing.

So, if you think the phenomenon of cheating is only limited to school life then you’re quite wrong. Meet Safeer Karim, a Tamil Nadu-cadre trainee IPS officer who was caught cheating by the Intelligence Bureau officers in the Union Public Service Commission (Main) Examination at a test centre in Egmore, Chennai.

You can imagine the rise of technology since from your school days from the fact that Safeer Karim inserted a Bluetooth-enabled miniature camera in his shirt button, took a wireless earpieces into the examination hall which was connected to his cell phone which he managed to smuggle inside the examination hall too. And on the other side of the phone, it was Karim’s wife, Joicy Joy dictating answers to him from Hyderabad.

Karim had ranked 112 in a second attempt at UPSC exams and had flunked the interview the previous year.  The Intelligence Bureau had already put him under surveillance as they suspected Karim of cheating in the first of five tests in the UPSC examinations on Saturday.

The Police have taken both Karim and his wife under custody.