The candidates during the exam
India’s army made candidates at a recruitment day in Bihar take a
written exam in their underwear to prevent them from cheating, reports
said Tuesday, after a spate of exam cheating scandals in the eastern
state.
An image in the Indian Express (seen above) showed dozens of men
sitting cross-legged in a field clad only in underpants, with many
resting their test papers on their thighs, while uniformed supervisors
stood guard.
The paper quoted an army source as saying they took the radical step to “save time on frisking so many people” after more than 1,000 candidates turned up.
“We had no option but to comply with the instructions even though it felt odd,” one told the paper.
An army spokesperson in New Delhi refused to comment on the report,
which came a year after police in Bihar said they had arrested around
1,000 aspiring officers for paying people to sit their exams for them.
Using methods ranging from old-fashioned crib sheets to high-tech
spy cameras, cheating is common in India, mostly to secure good school
grades and highly-sought government jobs.
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