Chennai: The Madras high court has directed the Inspector General of Police and the member secretary, Tamil Nadu Uniformed Service Recruitment Board, to file a detailed affidavit setting out the facts and circumstances and the questions asked as to the genuinity of the appointment of G.V.Kumar and D.Moorthy, who had committed forgery with an intention to cheat the board by furnishing false documents as the genuine one, by the board and the manner in which the expert’s opinion are obtained from the experts.
Appalled over the expert’s opinion relating to the correctness of the key answer to a question in the written examination conducted for recruitment to the post of sub-inspector of police, furnished before the court, is now found to be a bogus one, Justice S.M.Subramaniam gave the above directive.
Originally, S.Arunachallam, who is now working as grade-II police constable, submitted his application, pursuant to the recruitment notification issued by the TNUSR Board for
recruitment to the post of sub-inspector of police, and participated in the process of selection. He was successful in the written examination.
His grievance was that on account of the wrong key answer to a question, half mark was denied to him. Therefore, he filed a petition to consider his representation and include him in the list of provisionally selected candidates in the departmental quota. When the petition came up for hearing, the court had directed the board to obtain an expert opinion to find out the correctness of the key answer and to ascertain the genuinity of the claim of the petitioner. Accordingly, based on the expert opinion given by one D.Murthi, professor of IIT, the court had dismissed the petition on March 13.
However, subsequently, the counsel for the petitioner brought to the notice of the court that the expert opinion produced before the court was a bogus one. When the case came up for hearing on Monday, Additional advocate general submitted the written instructions signed by the Inspector General of Police and the member secretary, TNUSR Board, stating that they identified some
impersonation in the matter of providing expert’s opinion to the board and in respect of such impersonation, a criminal case was registered by the board against G.V.Kumar and D.Moorthy.
“This court had gone through the letter of instructions. The larger questions, which all are asked by this court regarding the sanctity of engaging G.V.Kumar for the purpose of obtaining the expert’s opinion and the status of G.V.Kumar in the Board, are not explained before this court. Several connected questions, which all are asked regarding thegenuinity of the appointment these persons by the board and the manner in which the expert’s opinion are obtained from the experts are not explained”, the bench added and gave the directive while posting the case to April 2.
