Nithyakalyani Narayanan. V
Madras High Court Judge Justice N. Anand Venkatesh encountered a disturbing incident of misuse of his name by an impostor to guarantee a seat in a private engineering college in Chennai. His Personal Assistant lodged a complaint, after which the police arrested the impostor.
According to the complainant K. Pushpalatha, a Senior Advocate practising of the High Court informed the chambers of the Justice that a person claiming to be the Personal Secretary of the Judge had approached the college for admission of a student who was projected to be the son of the Judge.
The Advocate 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 that he was the personal secretary to the judge.
A case was registered at the High Court Police Station under Sections 417 (cheating), 419 (impersonation) and 511 (Punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment) of the Indian Penal Code. The police arrested R. Venkatesaperumal of Ramapuram in Chennai. He owned a card identifying himself to be a non-judicial member of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.
He was arrested and remanded in judicial custody.