Racket holds ‘job interviews’ for judiciary in legal services office
TNN | Updated: Jan 3, 2019, 08:23 IST
Representative imageCHENNAI: A racket that offered jobs in the judiciary and conducted ‘interviews’ right inside the office of the Kancheepuram district legal services authority has been busted.
The Chengalpet town police have registered an FIR against two men on charges of cheating and trespassing.
Former vice-president of Chengalpet Bar Association N Sathishbabu said the men, Govindan and Albert, interviewed more than 40 people for the posts of office assistants and attenders in the district judiciary, on December 26 and 27.
Govindan is reportedly a non-practising LLB graduate who formerly worked as an advocate clerk. Albert is his friend. “We were informed that they asked the candidates to pay Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh each to get the job.”
To make it look serious, the men managed to do the interviews in the room allotted for the president of the district legal services authority. “A person in charge of the legal services authority has been suspended for permitting the men to use the room illegally,” said Sathishbabu. He suspected the involvement of some advocates and officials of the authority.
S Chokalingam, the sitting president of the Chengalpet Bar Association, said he had no official confirmation about the incident. “I was orally informed about such an incident. I heard that an FIR has been registered against two men, but I am not sure,” he said.
C Kumarappan, registrar general of the Madras high court, said, “We were informed that the issue has been brought to the knowledge of the member secretary, state legal services authority, who is the administrative head of district legal services authorities. On such information he had given the go ahead for a police inquiry. Police are free to take action based on their investigation.”
Based on the complaint filed by the district legal aid secretary and a sub-judge, police registered an FIR against Govindan and Albert on December 29, 2018 under sections 420 (cheating), 419 (punishment for cheating by impersonation), 451 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life) of IPC. They have, however, not been arrested.
The Chengalpet town police have registered an FIR against two men on charges of cheating and trespassing.
Former vice-president of Chengalpet Bar Association N Sathishbabu said the men, Govindan and Albert, interviewed more than 40 people for the posts of office assistants and attenders in the district judiciary, on December 26 and 27.
Govindan is reportedly a non-practising LLB graduate who formerly worked as an advocate clerk. Albert is his friend. “We were informed that they asked the candidates to pay Rs 4 lakh to Rs 6 lakh each to get the job.”
To make it look serious, the men managed to do the interviews in the room allotted for the president of the district legal services authority. “A person in charge of the legal services authority has been suspended for permitting the men to use the room illegally,” said Sathishbabu. He suspected the involvement of some advocates and officials of the authority.
S Chokalingam, the sitting president of the Chengalpet Bar Association, said he had no official confirmation about the incident. “I was orally informed about such an incident. I heard that an FIR has been registered against two men, but I am not sure,” he said.
C Kumarappan, registrar general of the Madras high court, said, “We were informed that the issue has been brought to the knowledge of the member secretary, state legal services authority, who is the administrative head of district legal services authorities. On such information he had given the go ahead for a police inquiry. Police are free to take action based on their investigation.”
Based on the complaint filed by the district legal aid secretary and a sub-judge, police registered an FIR against Govindan and Albert on December 29, 2018 under sections 420 (cheating), 419 (punishment for cheating by impersonation), 451 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), and 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life) of IPC. They have, however, not been arrested.
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