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IN PICS | Mumbai: Four aspirants booked for cheating during police recruitment in Marol

Updated On: 26 February, 2026 12:23 PM IST | Tarun Verma

A candidate exchanged his RFID tag, used for calculating the distance run, with his friend. In the second incident, two candidates took a shortcut in the third round of the 1600-metre run to complete the task (Illustrations/Uday Mohite)

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Soon after, Sagar Nivrutti pretends to collapse due to fatigue while the 100-metre run was still underway. (Illustration/Uday Mohite)

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Soon after, Sagar Nivrutti pretends to collapse due to fatigue while the 100-metre run was still underway. (Illustration/Uday Mohite)
Sagar Nivrutti exchanged his RFID tag with his friend Omkar Wanjud, who is a better runner and not interested in applying

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Sagar Nivrutti exchanged his RFID tag with his friend Omkar Wanjud, who is a better runner and not interested in applying

Just before the test began, Wanjud swapped his RFID chip with Nivrutti. Wanjud then pretended to collapse and was rushed to the HBT Trauma Care Hospital

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Just before the test began, Wanjud swapped his RFID chip with Nivrutti. Wanjud then pretended to collapse and was rushed to the HBT Trauma Care Hospital

Meanwhile, Omkar Wanjud completes the race carrying Nivrutti’s RFID chip, leading cops to get suspicious

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Meanwhile, Omkar Wanjud completes the race carrying Nivrutti’s RFID chip, leading cops to get suspicious

The police check CCTV footage of the ground and discover that the RFID chips had been swapped to give Nivrutti an advantage; both are booked

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The police check CCTV footage of the ground and discover that the RFID chips had been swapped to give Nivrutti an advantage; both are booked

Omkar Ravindra Pawar from Nashik, and Suyash Sitaram Khande from Mumbai took a shortcut in the 1600-metre run by going off the track and re-entering later; both were booked

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Omkar Ravindra Pawar from Nashik, and Suyash Sitaram Khande from Mumbai took a shortcut in the 1600-metre run by going off the track and re-entering later; both were booked

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