Safeer Karim, a young police officer desperate to enter the coveted Indian Administrative Service or IAS, was arrested on Monday for the cheating in the public recruitment examination in Chennai.
The 2015 batch police officer was allegedly found to have used electronic devices to communicate with his wife during the examination on Monday
He was arrested after a thorough probe," a senior police officer told NDTV .
Mr Karim had cleared a similar test about two years ago but had then opted to join the Indian Police Service, or IPS, reportedly because he was inspired by a police officer's character in a 1994 Malayalam movie, 'Commissioner'.
While he was still appearing for the civil services examination, the engineering graduate had also started a coaching institute for other civil services aspirants as well.