Riot-like security for constable exam

Jaipur | Sunday | 15th July, 2018

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The arrangement was in response to the “organised cheating” witnessed in the same examination conducted in March this year which was subsequently scrapped. I had to catch a train but couldn’t book a cab to reach the station. A relentless operation, which began two weeks ago, to nab the cheating gangs resulted in the arrest of nearly 50 suspects. I had to call up my cousin in Delhi to book the cab and check the train status,” said Sarita Sharma, a Jaipur resident.Cheating mafias had rigged an earlier test held in March this year, forcing the state to scrap the exam and hold it once again. JAIPUR: Mobile internet services were suspended and high-alert security remained clamped across Rajasthan in an unprecedented security arrangement for the two-day examination for 13,142 constable posts that began on Saturday.Over 14 lakh candidates — seven lakh on Saturday and a similar number on the next day — are taking the test at 644 centres in a “riot-ready” security atmosphere even as people vented their ire for being not able to use mobile internet services..