Justice N. Anand Venkatesh of the Madras High Court has come across a shocking incident of misuse of his name by an impostor to secure an engineering seat in a reputed private college in Chennai. Following a complaint lodged by his personal assistant, the police nabbed the impostor.
According to the complainant K. Pushpalatha, a senior advocate practising in the High Court had brought it to the notice of the judge’s chambers that an individual claiming to be the judge’s personal secretary had approached the college seeking admission for a student who was projected to be the judge’s son.
The advocate also shared the phone number from which the college had received the call seeking obligation. Immediately, the judge’s personal security officer made a phone call to the number. The person on the other end identified himself to be Srinivasan and claimed he was the personal secretary to the judge.
Thereafter, a case was registered at the High Court Police Station under Sections 417 (cheating), 419 (impersonation) and 511 of Indian Penal Code and the police nabbed R. Venkatesaperumal of Ramapuram in Chennai. The suspect was in possession of a card identifying himself to be a non judicial member of State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
He was arrested and remanded in judicial custody.
