Chennai: The Crime Branch-CID on Wednesday took over investigation of the cheating in Union Public Service Examination by an IPS trainee two weeks ago.
City police had arrested the 29-year-old officer trainee, Safeer Karim, after he was caught redhanded while indulging in malpractice at an exam centre in Egmore on October 30.
Tamil Nadu Director General of Police T. K. Rajendran issued orders on Wednesday for the probe . Police sources said that the city police did not seek custody of Safeer Karim for further investigations as they were informed of the developments.
The IPS trainee, who has since been suspended, was caught communicating through a bluetooth headset at the exam hall in Presidency Girls Higher Secondary School in Egmore.
He was supposedly receiving inputs from his wife, Joicy Joy and his friend, Ram Babu based in Hyderabad.
Joicy and Ram Babu were also arrested by a special team of the city police and the woman is already out on bail.
City police were already probing involvement of a wider ring and had arrested two persons from Kerala for allegedly helping Karim clear UPSC preliminary examinations last year. The arrested persons were part of the UPSC coaching academy that he ran.
CB-CID is likely to pursue the leads picke up by the City police. A native of Ernakulam in Kerala, Karim had cleared the Civil services examination in 2015 with an All India Rank of 112 and was allotted the Tamil Nadu cadre. Before his arrest, he was serving as a station in charge under training in Nanguneri sub
division in Tirunelveli district.
