02, Feb 2012

Technology is only as honest as the one using it. If it helps the honest person work more efficiently, it also aids the criminal commit bigger crimes. Only recently did the Delhi Police expose a racket of five people who used hi-tech methods for cheating in the All India Postgraduate Medical Entrance Exam (AIPGMEE). If you thought that was an isolated case, then you were wrong.  Another scandal of hi-tech cheating has come to light in the Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) held on Sunday, the 29^thof January 2012, at the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. The exam is part of the procedure to select candidates to fill postgraduate medical and dental seats in Karnataka. The exam was conducted at 8 centers in Bangalore. Nearly, 9,110 candidates had applied for the medical test and 2,171 had applied for dental exam.

The student who is alleged to have cheated during the exam used a pen with a camera and a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone that he kept in his pocket. He captured images of the question paper and sent it via his cell phone to a friend in Hyderabad. On receiving a question in the form of an image, the friend would text him back the answers through his mobile phone.

The university sources revealed that the accused had been planning for it for nearly one and a half months before the exam. He had tested his modus operandi before executing it on Sunday. The student belongs to Andhra Pradesh and is a son of highly qualified doctors, and this was his second attempt in PGET. He has been handed over to Silver Jubilee Park Police. No other incidences were reported by the examiners.