Copying in UPSC exam: IPS officer gets bail

tnn | Updated: Nov 23, 2017, 01:34 IST

 

Chennai: More than three weeks after facing the ignominy of being caught while copying in civil services examination conducted by the UPSC and arrested too, IPS probationer Safeer Karim is set to come out of jail on bail.

On Wednesday, concurring with the submissions of advocate R C Paul Kanagaraj, the principal sessions judge S Subadevi granted conditional bail to the 29-year-old IPS officer. The judge directed him to appear before CB-CID twice daily — at 9.30am and 5.30pm — until further orders.

On October 30, Safeer Karim was found using gadgets such as micro camera, earpieces and two mobile phones stuck on his person during main examinations for civil services. His wife and his friend were picked up from the family-managed coaching institute in Hyderabad. His wife, who had to live in jail with their months-old child, was granted bail by a metropolitan magistrate court.