Seven held for running cheating racket for PPSC exams

BAHAWALPUR: Seven members of a cheating racket were held red-handed extending illegal help to candidates appearing in the Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) exams on Monday.

Reportedly, three policemen and one Naib Tehsildar were also arrested when they were providing cheating opportunities to candidates through modern electronic devices installed at a local hotel near the examination centre.

The mastermind belongs to police department identified as sub-inspector Saif Ullah Malhi of district Rahim Yar Khan, who was running the racket under the name of 'Muhammad Hussain Academy' in Sadiqabad for last four years. He had extorted millions of rupees from candidates ambitious to join the police service as sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors.

Civil Lines police, Bahawalpur, has also arrested 16 candidates who were attempting the SI exam under the PPSC at the Government SE College examination centre. District Police Officer (DPO) Bahawalpur Dr Akhtar Abbas has confirmed the arrest of the accused in his press conference, saying SI Malhi and other culprits had revealed during interrogations that they were providing help to candidates in the PPSC exams at Lahore centre, and a few days earlier they solved several papers by using Wi-Fi and other electronic devices. The DPO said a police team was interrogating the racket members and a complete report would be forwarded to the PPSC and higher authorities of the government.