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undefined | Dwarka flat used to run online exam cheating racket, man arrested; 32 ‘paper solvers’ bound down

New Delhi: Delhi Police have arrested a 28‑year‑old man and detained at least 32 college students after uncovering an alleged exam‑solving racket operating from a flat in Dwarka’s Sector 23. Investigators say the group used remote‑desktop software to help candidates cheat in online entrance examinations for prestigious government and private institutions across Delhi and other states. The students involved were reportedly from top institutes such as IIT, Delhi Technological University, Maharaja Agrasen College, National Institute of Technology, MIT, Motilal Nehru College and Jamia Millia Islamia. All of them were “bound down,” meaning they must appear before the investigating officer whenever summoned and must obtain police permission before leaving the city.

Police raids revealed that the mastermind, identified as Harsh Vardhan, arranged for candidates to sit for entrance tests of a reputed management institute in Mumbai. He claimed the examination would be conducted at an IT lab in Jaipur, whose computers he accessed via remote‑access tools, and that he possessed the candidates’ admit cards. An associate named Pranjal allegedly recruited “paper solvers” – college students who, for Rs 500‑1,000 per question, answered queries from online competitive‑exam preparation platforms. The racket reportedly charged aspirants between Rs 2 lakh and higher amounts per candidate, targeting those who had previously failed competitive exams but were desperate to secure admission to elite colleges. By taking control of the examination centre’s systems, the gang fed real‑time answers to the candidates during the tests.

Preliminary investigations point to a well‑organised operation involving impersonation, outsourcing of question‑solving and manipulation of online examination centres. Authorities are currently verifying the exact number of examinations compromised and the full extent of the network. Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka) Kushal Pal Singh emphasized that those bound down must cooperate fully with the investigation. The bust highlights growing concerns over the vulnerability of online assessment platforms and the lengths to which cheating syndicates will go to exploit them.

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia – SMARTHEAL

kamstrup Mar 27

Crackpot #physics theory of mine - On our trouble defining formally what an Observer is:

My hunch is that an observer is a selection of a partition of phase space (or maybe configuration space) in the set set of all valid partitions. For some notion of validity.

(Not) Coincidentally tied closely to how phi is computed in integrated information theory #IIT Which may provide a hint to how observers may relate to #consciousness via a functor between appropriate categories