Six arrested for cheating in GATE examination

The Raipur constabulary connected Sunday (February 15, 2026) arrested six men from Haryana for allegedly cheating successful the Graduate Aptitude Test successful Engineering (GATE) entranceway introspection utilizing blase devices.

Among the six held, 3 are engineering graduates taking up the introspection portion 3 others are their accomplices, who were stationed extracurricular astatine the parking batch of the introspection centre, the ION Digital Zone successful the Sarona area, a constabulary serviceman said.

The GATE examination, with aggregate prime questions, is the summons for engineering graduates to unafraid a presumption successful premier institutions for higher studies, including the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. It was held crossed the state connected Sunday successful 2 shifts, the archetypal from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and the 2nd from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The accused, who were arrested during the greeting shift, person been identified arsenic Darshan Sehrawag (26) and Sumit Sehrawag (30) from Jhajjar, Laxminarayan Verma (36), Amar Chandra (32) and Bunty Kumar (38) from Fatehabad, and Narendra Kumar (29) from Hisar.

The program progressive the candidates, Mr. Verma, Mr. Chandra, and Mr. Kumar speechmaking retired the questions from the wrong the introspection hallway done a Bluetooth device, portion an accomplice each stationed extracurricular searched the answers connected Google and transmitted them backmost to the campaigner via the device, the serviceman said.

The constabulary had received credible accusation that definite individuals had planned to facilitate cheating by providing unfair assistance to candidates done physics devices, and a constabulary squad had been constituted to ace down connected the errant candidates.

“The constabulary squad maintained discreet surveillance astir the introspection centre. While monitoring suspicious activities adjacent the introspection centre (ION Digital Zone, Sarona), the squad noticed a fewer individuals successful suspicious circumstances carrying physics devices. Upon interrogation and search, devices utilized for facilitating cheating were recovered, aft which each suspects were detained for questioning,” helium said.

The device, investigators said, was a tiny two-part gadget, a tiny earpiece concealed wrong the ear, and a rectangular microphone tucked wrong 1 of the socks, sneaked into the introspection hallway and past hidden wrong the shirt. The microphone held a SIM paper utilized for teleconnection.

Upon interrogation, the accused candidates purportedly told the constabulary that they had each paid ₹2 lakh to definite individuals successful their autochthonal State, who teamed them up with the accomplices, and each of them travelled unneurotic to Raipur wherever the exam centre had been allocated, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Nagar Police Station in-charge Ravindra Kumar Yadav said.

The constabulary were present investigating if the accused were a portion of a larger module carrying retired akin malpractices crossed the country, Mr. Yadav said.