The police have uncovered a network behind candidates caught cheating in police recruitment exams. Two candidates arrested by Tilak Nagar police had paid between Rs 5 lakh and Rs 10 lakh for Bluetooth devices and SIM cards to facilitate cheating. Police sources believe a single mastermind may be behind multiple such cases.

The modus is the same with several candidates. They would connect the device, a collaborator would dictate the answer, and all of this happens in real-time. We suspect that there is one man behind the two arrested candidates at the Somaiya centre,” said a police source. The suspect is believed to be from Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar originally, but on the day of the exam, he was allegedly within the MMR jurisdiction. Police investigation teams are collecting digital data from the seized SIM cards to find out details of the mastermind.