JAIPUR: A youth in the Western Indian state of Rajasthan is cooling his heels behind bars after his attempt to buy his girlfriend a St. Valentines Day gift went awry.
Shailendra Parihar, a polytechnic student from Jaipur in the desert state, agreed to appear as a proxy candidate on behalf of another resident for the medical examination stage of the army recruitment exam for a fee of 5,000 Indian rupees (USD 80).
However, vigilant military authorities supervising the examination caught Parihar who immediately informed the police. Parihar was taken into custody after being booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code.
Parihar was allegedly appearing as a proxy student for one Monu Pal, whose selection had been withheld on medical grounds as he had some temporary disability in his ears. Pal, however, chose to get a proxy candidate in his place instead of getting his disability treated.
The Times of India reports that Parihar was depressed, as he had not been able to arrange money to buy a mobile phone for his girlfriend for Valentine’s Day. During this time, he met an acquaintance that introduced him to Pal, who needed a proxy candidate to appear in his place for the medical examination.
Parihar was nabbed at the military hospital for the medical examination; he was caught by the authorities who smelt a rat after finding discrepancies in the signatures of the original candidate and the imposter, which were checked using a biometric mechanism.
Indias examination system with all its loopholes has been successful in nabbing proxy students with scores of cases being reported every year.
According to reports, the numbers have drastically increased ever since the release of popular Bollywood movie, Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. where in the protagonist uses this method to clear medical examinations.
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