The Entrustment Document Fraud Wing of the Central Crime Branch on Tuesday arrested psychologist G.V. Kumar from his residence in Anna Nagar. Sources claim that Kumar was arrested on charges of introducing D. Moorthy as an IIT-M professor to Tamil Nadu Uniformed Service Recruitment Board (TNUSRB) officials.
TNUSRB officials sought Kumar's help after the Madras High Court directed them to submit a report from an IIT-M professor to deny marks to a candidate who applied for the fingerprint bureau sub-inspector selection process. Kumar allegedly introduced Moorthy, a schoolteacher, as a retired IIT-M professor. He submitted Moorthy's opinion to the TNUSRB officials on March 1 and the same was later submitted to the court.
Based on the complaint, the CCB officials have registered cases under various sections of IPC against Kumar and Moorthy. Justice S.M. Subramaniam had initiated contempt proceedings against TNUSRB Chairman J.K. Tripathy after being piqued over the way in which TNURSB filed a bogus “expert opinion” to deny half a mark to Grade II police constable S. Arunachalam.
Believing the “expert opinion” to have been given by an IIT- M professor named Moorthy, the judge dismissed the constable’s writ petition on March 13.
However, Mr. Arunachalam made an application under the RTI Act to the IIT-M and found that no professor by name D. Moorthy was serving or had ever served in the Mathematics department. He rushed to the court to inform it about the bogus opinion.
When the judge called for an explanation, an affidavit filed on behalf of the TNUSRB chairman stated that the board had been engaging the services of a psychologist G.V. Kumar alias G. Vijayakumar since 2011 for setting questions on psychology.
It was also claimed that it was Vijayakumar who had introduced Moorthy as a IIT-M professor and furnished an opinion by the latter which was submitted in the court to get the constable’s case dismissed.
It was also stated that a criminal case had been booked against both of them for having cheated the TNUSRB. Contrary to the board’s claim, the retired schoolteacher filed an affidavit in the court accusing the board of having misused his name. According to Moorthy, he had retired as a maths teacher from Kendriya Vidyalaya school on IIT-M campus in February 2013 and that Vijayakumar was his visiting faculty when he did a course in psychology in University of Madras.
Last month, Vijayakumar had reportedly requested him to visit the office of the TNUSRB’s office at Egmore in Chennai and meet the personal assistant to the Member Secretary, who was an officer in the rank of Inspector General of Police for solving a mathematical problem. He visited the office, solved the problem and appended his signature without mentioning any designation. The claim of him being a IIT professor had been typed by someone later, he said.
