Dehradun

Imposter row: SIT records academy guard's statement

PNS

Special Investigation Team which was formed by the State police to crack the sensational Ruby Choudhary case recorded the statement of Dev Singh a security guard of lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA), Mussoorie.

The statement of the guard was recorded before judicial magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC on Saturday. Choudhary who masqueraded as an IAS probationer had stayed in the allocated quarter of private security guard Dev Singh in the high security campus of academy for about seven months.

Police sources clarified that Singh was not arrested but only his statement was recorded before the judicial magistrate on Saturday evening. The SIT  is investigating on angles like how Choudhary had stayed in the Academy for seven months and whether high ranking academy officers are involved in it.

Earlier, SIT members had visited the allocated quarter of security guard Dev Singh where Choudhary stayed in for months. The team inspected the room and collected relevant evidences.  It was learnt that during the course of investigation, team found that Choudhary's name was not mentioned in register placed at Academy's entry gate while in visitors' register the names of those who met her were mentioned. Now the SIT team would probably submit application seeking Choudhary's police custody in the court on Monday.

It is worth mentioning here that Choudhary who had stayed for around seven months in Academy, without having proper authority, was arrested and sent to Suddhowala jail after being presented in the court on Saturday. Earlier, Choudhary had alleged Deputy Director of lBSNAA; Saurabh Jain had given her a fake ID card  and assured her a job in the academy for a hefty sum. Choudhary alleged that she had given an amount of Rs 5 lakh out of total Rs 20 lakh Jain had asked her to shell out for a job in the academy's library.