Safeer, who hails from Aluva in Ernakulam, was running civil services coaching centers in Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad.Chennai: The Keralite Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, who was caught cheating with high-tech gadgets at the civil services mains exam recently, could have assisted others as well in a similar fashion, sources in the investigating team said.
The team would file a plea in court to get Safeer Kareem in custody for further investigation. Police have also said the possibility of more arrests cannot be ruled out.
Safeer, who hails from Aluva in Ernakulam, was running civil services coaching centers in Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Hyderabad. These centers charge a higher fee than others. Eleven cell phones, a tablet, a laptop, four hard disks and a pen drive have been sent to a lab in Mylapore for forensic tests. Reports are expected within two weeks, and could prove if other similar incidents of cheating had taken place.
Meanwhile, the police said Safeer had not taken his mobile phone to the exam hall though the initial impression was that he had carried it. He had transmitted his question papers to his wife Joyci using a wireless modem that has a range of 1.5 km.
Safeer, an assistant superintendent of police in Nanguneri, Tirunelveli, allegedly attached a bluetooth-enabled miniature camera in a shirt button and took wireless earpieces into the examination hall in Presidency girls higher secondary school in Chennai.
He had cleared the IPS in the 2014 civil service exam with 112th rank but he wrote the mains exam again this year to improve his rank and move into the Indian administrative service (IAS).
His wife Joicy, who was also arrested for helping her husband, was recently granted bail as their daughter fell ill.
