#Rajasthan High Court Clerk Exam Cheating/sbkinews.in
Four junior clerks serving in different courts across Rajasthan have been arrested for allegedly using Bluetooth devices and a spy camera to cheat in the Rajasthan High Court’s 2022 junior clerk recruitment exam, exposing a high-tech paper leak racket run by an organised gang. The Special Operations Group (SOG) says the same network had earlier come under the scanner during other recruitment exams, and that extensive technical analysis has now linked the clerks to mastermind Paurav Kaler and his associate Tulsaram Kaler.
How the cheating racket worked
According to investigators, two gang members posed as candidates inside exam centres and used an imported Innova Chem Drop Box spy camera, worth about ₹90,000 and sourced from Spain, to secretly capture screenshots of the question papers moments after they were distributed. These images were transmitted in real time to Kaler, who had assembled a team of expert solvers tasked with quickly working out the answers.
Using specialised equipment, Kaler then relayed the solved answers through Bluetooth-enabled devices concealed on the selected candidates, allowing them to mark the correct options while appearing to write the exam normally. SOG officials say this method demonstrates how organised cheating syndicates are now leveraging advanced gadgets and encrypted communication to compromise competitive examinations.
Money trail and candidate benefits
Police allege that each of the four arrested clerks—identified as Dinesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Boran, Ramesh Kumar and Manish Budia—struck separate deals with the gang, paying between ₹3 lakh and ₹5 lakh for a guaranteed pass in the exam. After they cleared the test and received appointment orders as junior clerks in different districts, they are believed to have paid the agreed amounts to the mastermind from their illicitly obtained government jobs.
These arrests add to at least 20–21 people already held in connection with the broader racket, including Kaler himself and several accomplices involved in logistics, technology setup and money collection. Investigators are now following the financial trail, examining bank transactions and possible cash movements to identify how the proceeds were laundered or reinvested.
Wider probe into exam fraud in Rajasthan
The SOG’s investigation into this case began while probing irregularities in other state recruitment exams, notably the EO–RO test, where similar Bluetooth-based cheating patterns had emerged. A dedicated special investigation team led by DIG SOG Parish Deshmukh was formed to map links between various paper leaks and determine whether the same syndicate was repeatedly targeting high-stakes competitive exams. Read in -depth detail here.
Senior officers say the network appears to have operated across multiple districts, recruiting local contacts and leveraging weak security at certain exam centres. Authorities have indicated that more arrests are likely as questioning continues and additional suspects are identified through call records, device dumps and candidate lists from the compromised exams.
Impact on candidates and integrity of exams
The revelation that serving court clerks allegedly obtained their posts through high-tech cheating has triggered fresh concerns about the integrity of recruitment processes in Rajasthan. Honest aspirants who cleared or attempted the same exam are demanding strict action, cancellation of tainted appointments and systemic reforms in exam security, including stronger frisking, jamming of wireless signals and better surveillance of centres.
Experts in public administration argue that such scams erode trust in government institutions, especially the judiciary, where staff are expected to uphold the law and maintain ethical standards. They emphasise that unless exam fraud is tackled through a mix of technology upgrades, rigorous background checks and exemplary punishment for offenders, sophisticated cheating networks will continue to adapt and exploit vulnerabilities in the system.
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