Six arrested for cheating in GATE examination

Raipur police arrest six for orchestrating a cheating scheme in the GATE examination using electronic devices.

The Raipur police on Sunday (February 15, 2026) arrested six men from Haryana for allegedly cheating in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) entrance examination using sophisticated devices.

Among the six held, three are engineering graduates taking up the examination while three others are their accomplices, who were stationed outside at the parking lot of the examination centre, the ION Digital Zone in the Sarona area, a police officer said.

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The GATE examination, with multiple choice questions, is the ticket for engineering graduates to secure a position in premier institutions for higher studies, including the Indian Institutes of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science. It was held across the country on Sunday in two shifts, the first from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., and the second from 2.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m.

The accused, who were arrested during the morning shift, have been identified as Darshan Sehrawag (26) and Sumit Sehrawag (30) from Jhajjar, Laxminarayan Verma (36), Amar Chandra (32) and Bunty Kumar (38) from Fatehabad, and Narendra Kumar (29) from Hisar.

The plan involved the candidates, Mr. Verma, Mr. Chandra, and Mr. Kumar reading out the questions from the inside the examination hall through a Bluetooth device, while an accomplice each stationed outside searched the answers on Google and transmitted them back to the candidate via the device, the officer said.