IPS officer Safeer Karim, who was caught redhanded copying in UPSC Civil Services (Main) exam in Chennai, had?scored high in the ethics paper of the Civil Services-2014 exam.
Ethics paper tests the integrity of a candidate. By scoring high in the paper, Safeer managed to secure an all-India rank of 112.
Safeer, who completed engineering in electronics, scored top percentile in CAT, but instead of pursuing MBA, went to Vajiram and Ravi Academy in Delhi for civil services coaching. After learning the tricks in Delhi, he returned to Kerala and opened his own civil services coaching centres, Karim's La Excellence in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
Safeer secured 112 rank in the 2014 Civils exam in his third attempt.?
"The ethics paper was introduced by UPSC in 2013 to test integrity of a candidate. Safeer's case is the classic example of how the paper failed to test integrity of a candidate, who later went on to commit a fraud to shame the entire AIS officers' fraternity. He had scored 108 in the 250-mark paper in General Studies-4 (ethics, integrity and aptitude) paper. His scores in other three General Studies papers were comparatively less," an IRS officer, who too appeared in the UPSC Civil Services Examination-2014, said.
Safeer had secured 772 out of 1,750 marks in written exams and 178 out of 275 in the interview, with a cumulative of 950 out of 2,025 marks.
Meanwhile, police have arrested Karim's wife Joicy Joyce and a faculty member at a coaching centre for civil service aspirants for helping the 2015 batch Indian Police Service, officer, to cheat in the exam.
According to police, he used high-tech devices including a micro camera and a small earpiece device that were difficult to detect.
The camera, which is connected to a mobile phone via Bluetooth is used to take pictures of the question paper, which was then transmitted to someone outside who will dictate the answers into the small earpiece.