


The officer added that Tanwar and Agarwal took money from 22 students and have even allowed some of them to write the exams from a hotel, apart from the examination centre – Nav Bhavan Building in Ballard Estate. The department also found that two contractual sweepers – Sarvesh Gadade and Suresh Waghela – working with the department used to help in coding the question papers and answer sheets, keeping them properly and even sending them to the office of the DG Shipping.” In February 2022, during the examination for CoC, the Mercantile Marine Department found three answer sheets with one student.ĭuring the enquiry, the student had said that he and two others had paid ₹8.5 lakh to Saurabh Agarwal and Sunil Tanwar and after that the department had summoned the three students, an officer from MRA Marg police station said, adding, “Later, the department carried out a detailed enquiry and checked all the answer-sheets and found that from January 2021 to February 2022, 22 students were involved in cheating during the examination. HT ImageĪccording to the police, after a few cheating incidents came to the fore, the department found that 22 students paid ₹8.5 lakh per head to get the CoC. Additionally, the police have booked two contractual staffers of the department as well for allegedly aiding in carrying out unfair means in the examinations. Mumbai: Twenty-two students were booked for allegedly cheating during the Certificate of Competency (CoC) examination conducted by the Directorate General of Shipping for Marine Engineering Officer.
