Uttar Pradesh (Muzaffarnagar) native Ruby Choudhary, who had clandestinely stayed on for several months in the prestigious lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA), Mussoorie, posing as an IAS probationer, was finally arrested and sent to Suddhowala jail on judicial remand after being produced in the court on Saturday. Dehradun police had arrested Choudhary late Friday night with the magistrate’s permission.
Police said she has been arrested because of the apprehension that she would escape. Besides, she had a scuffle with police personnel on Friday evening. The SIT teams inquiring into the episode will seek Choudhary’s police custody in the court on Monday. SIT team members reached the hotel, near Dharampur, where the accused was putting up, at around11.30 pm on Friday and took her to Rajpur police station. Choudhary had been under police watch while staying at the hotel in Dehradun for the past three days. She was interrogated for several rounds running into five hours in Rajpur police station.
“Prime facie, she has been found guilty and we have arrested her after interrogation,” said Superintendent of Police (CB-CID) Shajahan Ansari, who is heading the probe. Earlier, Choudhary had alleged Deputy Director Saurabh Jain had given her a fake ID card to facilitate her stay at the academy. Choudhary alleged she had given him Rs 5 lakh out of Rs 20 lakh he had asked her to shell out for a job in the academy’s library.
SIT team members conducted Choudhary’s medical check-up in the Doon Women’s Hospital around 12 noon. Heavy police forces were deployed in the hospital premises and the medical check-up was conducted amid tight security. After coming out from the hospital, Choudhary kept mum while quizzed to comment on the latest development in the case. Before taking her to the court, police took her to an undisclosed place.
She was brought in the court around 3 pm. She appeared in the court of judicial magistrate-2 Chhavi Bansal. From there, she was sent to Suddhowala jail for 15 days’ judicial custody. Choudhary pleaded guilty in the court as far as the charge of trespassing into the academy is concerned, it is learnt. After coming out from the court, she refused to say anything before the media. Police may file a petition in the court for taking her into police custody for further interrogation on Monday.