Punjab Man Dresses Like Girlfriend To Write Exam, Caught With Fake Docs

Wearing a salwar suit and all decked up with a bindi and lipstick, Paramjit Kaur reached the examination hall on January 7 to write a multi-purpose health workers exam in Punjab's Faridkot.?

Except, it was not Paramjit Kaur, but her boyfriend who turned up at the exam - Angrez Singh, pretending to be Paramjit Kaur.?

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This hilarious scene played out at a health workers exam conducted by the Baba Farid University of Health Sciences at DAV Public School in Kotkapura.?

Fake voter and Adhaar cards to prove identity?

The university officials in Kotkapura found something amiss and filed a complaint with the police.?

According to the police, Angrez Singh even showed fake voter and Aadhar cards to prove he was Paramjit Kaur.?

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However, the truth was revealed when his fingerprints failed to match those of the genuine candidate on the biometric device.?

"Angrez Singh was impersonating a female candidate identified as Paramjit Kaur, a resident of Fazilka. He has been arrested and the candidature of the real candidate also invalidated," said Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Vice-Chancellor, Dr Rajeev Sud.?

Fake candidates: Not the first time?

This isn't the first time that 'fake' candidates were caught writing exams illegally on behalf of original students.?

Here are a few similar incidents of fake candidates in examinations:-?

Women impersonating male candidates to give exam: Jaipur, October 2023

In October 2023, three fake candidates including two women were arrested in Jaipur, while appearing for the Plus Three first semester examination of Shastri at a Sanskrit college.?

In this case, the two women were impersonating the original male examines.?

They were caught taking the exam on behalf of registered candidates at Ratnakar Sanskrit College at Saudia.?

Man pays 1.5 lakh to dummy candidate to write exam for him: Navi Mumbai, May 2022?

A 22-year old man was arrested in Navi Mumbai for hiring a dummy candidate to write the test for recruitment of para-military forces.?

The cost? 1.5 lakh.?

The accused was caught during his physical test, when his biometrics did not match with the actual candidate.?

Faces not matching with photos on admit cards: Jodhpur, April 2022?

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In April 2022, three proxy candidates were arrested while writing a secondary board exam being held in a government school in Daikara village near Jodhpur.?

They were caught when invigilators checked their admit cards and found their faces didn’t match with the photos on cards.?

The motive? To secure better marks for the original candidates.?

Fake Candidate Writes An Exam For BJP MLA's Wife: Chhattisgarh, August 2015?

News reports in 2015 claimed that a fake candidate allegedly sat for university exams today as proxy for senior BJP leader and Chhattisgarh education minister Kedar Kashyap's wife Shanti Kashyap.?

This is for the final year post-graduate examination of English at the Sunderlal Sharma Open University in Jagdalpur.?

The act was caught when the other candidates took notice of the impersonation and created a ruckus.? ? ? ? ?

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