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

<p>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</p>

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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

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

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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

<p>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</p>

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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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