CHENNAI/HYDERABAD: Police on Monday detained a Tamil Nadu-cadre trainee IPS officer after Intelligence Bureau officers caught him falsification in the Union Public Service Commission (Main) Examination at a test center in Egmore, Chennai.

Investigators asserted that Safeer Karim, an assistant superintendent of police in Nanguneri, Tirunelveli, brought with him a cellphone, a Bluetooth-enabled miniature camera in a shirt button and wireless earpieces into the examination hall in Presidency Girls Higher Secondary School.

"Karim's wife, Joicy Joy, told the answers to him on phone from Hyderabad," an investigating officer quoted.

The Hyderabad police made coordinated arrests take Joicy into detention at `La Excellence IAS -The Institute for Civil Services' at Ashok Nagar Crossroads in Hyderabad, where she was a visiting faculty, as well as the institute's director and Karim's friend, P Rambabu. "Karim wanted to join the IAS, so he took the UPSC exams again," the investigation officer said.

Karim, from Aluva, Kerala, who ranked 112 in a second attempt at the UPSC exams in 2015 after falling short in the interview the previous year, is an electronics engineer and proprietor of Karim's IAS, which trains civil service candidates and has branches in Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. The investing officer said the IB, suspecting that Karim had embittered in the first of five tests in the UPSC examinations on Saturday, had put him under supervision. They also keep an eye on his wife. Four IB sleuths followed him to the examination hall on Monday where Karim effectively tricked a couple of policemen who were frisking candidates at the entry gate.