Mussoorie: A local court here on Saturday sent Ruby Chaudhary to 14-day judicial custody after she was arrested for illegally staying at the prestigious Indian Administrative Service (IAS) training academy in Mussoorie for over six months on a fake identity card as an IAS probationer. She also accused a senior officer of taking bribe to facilitate her stay.
Chaudhary was arrested yesterday under Sections 420 (cheating, dishonesty), 467 (forgery of valuable security), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the IPC.
The family and relatives of Chowdhary have already been questioned and her parents have disowned her.
Her father Satyaveer and brother Mohit have been interrogated by the Muzaffarnagar police in Uttar Pradesh and a report has been dispatched to the academy administration, an official informed further.
"The woman who was holed up in a city hotel in Nehru colony has since been arrested for questioning," an official said.
Director General of Police (DGP) BS Siddhu informed that law of the land would be followed in the case and no body will be spared if found guilty.
Meanwhile, the union ministry of personnel has also sought a report from the academy's top brass on the whole episode.
Insiders say deputy director and Kerala cadre IAS Saurabh Jain, who is alleged of conniving with the woman in getting her a fake ID card is likely to face action any time now.
Chowdhary has alleged that Jain had sought Rs 20 lakh as a bribe to get her a librarian's job at the academy.
She said she had paid Rs five lakh already.
Jain has been maintaining a studied silence on the matter and is not available to the media for his reaction.
The Uttarakhand government was left red-faced after the woman was discovered to have stayed at the academy in Mussoorie and even got herself clicked in a group photograph of IAS probationers with President Pranab Mukherjee, who visited the academy last year.
(With Agency inputs)
