Candidates appear Army exam in underwear

In a bizarre and shocking incident, candidates appearing in army recruitment examination in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur District were asked to sit in their underwear to prevent cheating.

Around 1150 candidates had appeared for the exam on Sunday when they were ordered to take off their clothes and sit in only underwear in an open ground.

The examination was being conducted for the recruitment of clerks in the army.

According to a report in the Indian Express, candidates were asked to remove their clothes to “save time on frisking so many people.

The director of the army recruitment board defending the outrageous order by saying, “We earlier had a bad experience while conducting exams. This has been done to avoid cheating.”