Ahmedabad: A man has been arrested for appearing for an Indian Air Force (IAF) recruitment exam as a proxy candidate. The person for whom he was appearing too has landed in the net after a complaint was filed with Chiloda police on Sunday.
The accused have been identified as Aman Kumar Phoolbati and Pavan Kumar Omprakash, both from Haryana.
Police said the price for appearing for the exam had been fixed at Rs 4 lakh.
The FIR filed by 52-year-old Ravikant Singh, a IAF warrant officer adjutant with the Regional Examination Board (REB) (West), Gandhinagar, stated that the exam for the post of lower division clerk (LDC) was held at the IAF station in Palaj, Gandhinagar on Sunday, from 7.30am onwards.
The 125 candidates appearing for the exam had been instructed to arrive only with their identity cards and call letters.
Sergeant Manoj Singh, who was checking the candidates during the exam, found a cellphone concealed in the undergarments of a candidate whose ID card showed his name as Pavan Kumar Omprakash. Further frisking also found earplugs which he was using. Singh stated in the FIR that preliminary questioning revealed that the man’s real name was Aman Kumar Phoolbati.
The 25-year-old resident of Charkhi Dadri in Haryana had allegedly appeared in place of Omprakash, a Sirsa native, by using fraudulent means.
Inspector R R Parmar of Chiloda police said that Phoolbati had made an offer to appear for the exam in place of Omprakash for Rs 4 lakh. “He was to get Rs 2 lakh upon clearing the exam and the remaining after Omprakash got the job,” said Parmar.
Parmar said the two have been charged with cheating by personation and abetment under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
