In a desperate attempt to secure a railway job, a candidate allegedly removed his thumb skin and pasted it on his friend ,a proxy candidate’s thumb so that the latter could clear biometric verification and appear for the recruitment exam in his place.
But the attempt was proven failure after the transplanted piece of skin came off on Thursday, and the attempt to deceive the biometric device was exposed.
As per reports a senior doctor informed they would have never been able to pull off the trickery even if the transferred piece of skin had stuck on.
The Vadodara police arrested the candidate Manish Kumar and his proxy Rajyaguru Gupta, natives of Munger district in Bihar, for cheating and forgery, Additional Commissioner of Police S M Varotariya said.
Both of them are in their mid-20s and had cleared Class 12 exam in the past, he said.
A private company authorised by the Railways conducted a recruitment test for ‘D’ group vacancies in Laxmipura area on August 22, with over 600 candidates participating, said a police official.
“To prevent cheating (through impersonation), all the candidates were required to give their thumb impression, which was matched with their Aadhaar data through a biometric device,” said Varotariya.
“When the supervisor sprayed sanitizer on his left thumb, the skin that was pasted on it came off,” he added
The candidate who identified himself as Manish Kumar gave his thumb impression, but even after repeated attempts his verification failed ,he said. The exam supervisor grew even more suspicious when he noticed that the candidate was trying to hide his left hand inside the pocket of his pants.
After questioning him they found out that his real name was Rajyaguru Gupta, and later a case was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 465 (forgery), 419 (cheating by impersonation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) against him and Kumar.
