Uttarakhand Special Investigation Team secured four-day police remand of Ruby Choudhary from the court on Monday. Amid tight security, Choudhary — accused of impersonating an IAS probationer and staying on the lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (lBSNAA) using fake identity card, was produced in the court of judicial magistrate, Mussoorie.
SIT team filed a petition seeking police remand of Choudhary for seven days to collect the evidence in regards to registered case in Mussoorie Police Station. The court granted four days police remand from 9 am on Tuesday. The family members of Choudhary had reached Dehradun court expecting that she would be presented in the Dehradun court.
They were disappointed on learning that she would be presented in Mussoorie Court. Choudhary’s family members alleged that she was being framed as part of a conspiracy. The authorities are acting in a one-sided way in this case to protect academy officers, they alleged. Police sources said that SIT team will collect evidences based on her interrogation during four days of police remand. Choudhary would be taken to Nainital by the SIT team from where she had procured fake sub-divisional magistrate identity card.
She might also be taken to Meerut where she had claimed to have kept IAS probationer uniform. She would be taken to the academy to ascertain how she had entered into the campus.Based on evidences and her statement, she would be brought face to face with lBSNAA officers including deputy director Saurabh Jain and security guard Dev Singh, it is learnt.
After end of four days of her police remand, police would record Choudhary’s statement under 164 of CrPC before a judicial magistrate. The statement of academy security guard Dev Singh was recorded by the SIT team on Saturday under section 164 of CrPC before judicial magistrate.
Choudhary had posed as an IAS probationer and stayed in the allocated quarter of private security guard Dev Singh within the campus of lBSNAA, Mussoorie for around seven months. DGP BS Sidhu said several teams under SIT are working on this case. The teams have begin investigating aspects like how Choudhary had stayed in the academy for seven months and whether the academy officers were involved in it.
He said that in the course of investigation, it was found that Choudhary’s name was not mentioned in the academy’s entry gate register but names of visitors who had met Choudhary in the campus had been entered in the register. During investigation, it has been revealed that Choudhary’s claim about having met Saurabh Jain in a programme of UPSC in Delhi was found to be incorrect since Jain had not attended the said programme. Choudhary who had stayed in the academy for seven months without proper authority, was arrested and sent to Suddhowala jail after being presented in the court on Saturday.
Earlier, she had alleged Jain had given her a fake ID card for a hefty sum to facilitate her stay at the academy. Chaudhry alleged she had given him Rs5 lakh out of Rs20 lakh Jain had asked her to shell out for a job in the academy’s library.