Security guard at IAS academy where 'fake' officer had stayed slapped with Rs 1 crore notice

There’s a fresh twist in the case where a woman was caught staying at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Administrative Academy in Mussoorie for 6 months with a fake IAS ID card with the security guard at the academy being slapped with a Rs 1.01 crore legal notice for defamation and criminal conspiracy. [caption id=“attachment_2198696” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] The former security guard at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie was slapped with a Rs 1 crore notice. PTI[/caption] Deb Singh, the security guard who had been suspended after the incident came to light, received the notice from the lawyer of the academy’s deputy director Saurabh Jain, reported The Times of India. The guard is the sole bread winner in a family of seven people. TOI quoted Singh’s daughter, Pooja, as saying, “My issue is that Ruby Chaudhary is in jail, my father has been suspended but Saurabh Jain, who gave permission to Ruby to stay in our father’s house, is still roaming free. Why isn’t he being questioned?” This entire incident came to light on 27 March when the civil service recruits training academy learnt about the woman, Ruby Chaudhary, and her prolonged stay at the institute. An official of the institute had lodged an FIR in connection with the incident at Mussoorie police station. According to the FIR, the woman, hailing from Muzaffarnagar, in Uttar Pradesh arrived at the academy on 20 September and introduced herself as Ruby Choudhry, a trainee IAS officer and stayed there for a little over six months before mysteriously disappearing on 27 March. The issue became even more controversial when the woman alleged that Saurabh Jain knew she wasn’t an IAS probationer. She had also told mediapersons that Jain had facilitated her gate pass to the academy. The woman had also accused Jain, 38, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official from the Kerala cadre, of seeking a bribe of Rs 20 lakh to get her a librarian’s job. She had also alleged that Jain had asked her to keep quiet and not report the matter to the media in lieu of Rs 5 crore. Completely refuting Chaudhry’s claims, Jain had said, “The allegation that I promised her to get a job in the library on the consideration of Rs.20 lakh is totally baseless and I strongly refute it. I am in no way concerned with the working of the academy library.” Chaudhry had even threatened to commit suicide if she did not get ‘justice’. “I am in deep depression. I have lost my ties with my family and in-laws. If I don’t get justice, I will have no choice but to commit suicide,” she had said. The Uttarakhand government had formed a special investigation team (SIT), headed by a woman police official, to probe the incident. (With agency inputs)