TNUSRB ‘ghost expert’ report: Psychologist arrested in Chennai
A Selvaraj | TNN | Apr 3, 2019, 16:16 IST
Psychologist G V KumarCHENNAI: A day after the Madras high court hit hard against the Tamil Nadu Uniformed Services Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) for submitting a ‘ghost expert’ report to it, the Chennai city crime branch arrested psychologist G V Kumar on Wednesday for forgery and cheating.
The entrustment document fraud (EDF) wing of the CCB booked a cheating case against two people, including Kumar, 51, a native of Tirunelveli and settled in Chennai’s Anna Nagar, and retired maths teacher Murthy, 62, who was employed in the Kendriya Vidyalaya on the IIT-Madras campus.
An investigation officer said, “As per the instructions of the Madras high court, we have not arrested the retired school teacher for submitting his report to the TNUSRB. We have arrested psychologist Kumar for introducing Murthy to TNUSRB officials claiming him to be an IIT-M professor.”
TNUSRB officials sought the help of Kumar when the Madras high court asked them to submit an expert opinion from an IIT-Madras professor or a retired professor for rejecting a candidate who applied for a fingerprint bureau sub-inspector post. Kumar hid the fact that Murthy worked as a school teacher and introduced him as retired IIT-M professor Dr D Murthi and obtained his opinion and gave it to the TNUSRB officials on March 1 last, which was later submitted to the court.
Based on the complaint, the CCB officials registered a case under the IPC sections 420 (cheating), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using a forged document as a genuine one), 491 (breach of contract) read with 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) against G V Kumar and Murthy.
Kumar has been practising as a psychologist, psychometrician, marital counsellor, behavioural and soft skills trainer since 1983 and he has contributed to provide psychology questions for the TNUSRB examinations held in the recent and past years. Kumar worked as a psychologist at Chennai Port Trust and has been serving many leading organisations as an official counsellor for the past three decades.
He was remanded in judicial custody.
The entrustment document fraud (EDF) wing of the CCB booked a cheating case against two people, including Kumar, 51, a native of Tirunelveli and settled in Chennai’s Anna Nagar, and retired maths teacher Murthy, 62, who was employed in the Kendriya Vidyalaya on the IIT-Madras campus.
An investigation officer said, “As per the instructions of the Madras high court, we have not arrested the retired school teacher for submitting his report to the TNUSRB. We have arrested psychologist Kumar for introducing Murthy to TNUSRB officials claiming him to be an IIT-M professor.”
TNUSRB officials sought the help of Kumar when the Madras high court asked them to submit an expert opinion from an IIT-Madras professor or a retired professor for rejecting a candidate who applied for a fingerprint bureau sub-inspector post. Kumar hid the fact that Murthy worked as a school teacher and introduced him as retired IIT-M professor Dr D Murthi and obtained his opinion and gave it to the TNUSRB officials on March 1 last, which was later submitted to the court.
Based on the complaint, the CCB officials registered a case under the IPC sections 420 (cheating), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471 (using a forged document as a genuine one), 491 (breach of contract) read with 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) against G V Kumar and Murthy.
Kumar has been practising as a psychologist, psychometrician, marital counsellor, behavioural and soft skills trainer since 1983 and he has contributed to provide psychology questions for the TNUSRB examinations held in the recent and past years. Kumar worked as a psychologist at Chennai Port Trust and has been serving many leading organisations as an official counsellor for the past three decades.
He was remanded in judicial custody.
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