IPS officer jailed for cheating in UPSC

Police on Monday arrested a Tamil Nadu-cadre trainee IPS officer after Intelligence Bureau officers caught him cheating in the Union Public Service Commission (Main) Examination at a test centre in Egmore, Chennai.

Investigators said Safeer Karim, an assistant superintendent of police in Nanguneri, Tirunelveli, took a cellphone, a Bluetooth-enabled miniature camera in a shirt button and wireless earpieces into the examination hall in Presidency Girls Higher Secondary School.

“Karim’s wife, Joicy Joy, dictated the answers to him from Hyderabad,” an investigating officer said.

The Hyderabad police made coordinated arrests, taking Joy into custody at `La Excellence IAS -The Institute for Civil Services’ at Ashok Nagar Crossroads in Hyderabad, where she was a visiting faculty member, as well as the institute’s director and Karim’s friend, P Rambabu. “Karim wanted to join the IAS, so he took the UPSC exams again,” the officer said.