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5 On receipt of statutory notice, Mr. G. Karthikeyan, I.P.S., Member Secretary of the Board and Mr. N.K. Senthamarai Kannan, I.P.S., former Member Secretary of the Board, appeared before us on 24.08.2021, on which date, the following charge was framed by us:

“That, you, (1) TNUSRB represented by the Member Secretary and (2) N.K.Senthamarai Kannan, I.P.S., who was the Member Secretary of TNUSRB at the relevant time, submitted a report dated 01.03.2019, purported to have been issued by an expert by name Dr.D.Moorthy, M.Sc., Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT, Madras, who later on was found not to be a Professor in the IIT, Madras, justifying the mark that was awarded to the said Arunachalam for Question Number 145, based on which, W.P.No.5542 of 2019 was dismissed by this Court on 13.03.2019 and thereby, you are charged for the above said act, which is punishable under Section 2(c)(ii) read with Section 12 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, for prejudicing the due course of the judicial proceeding in W.P.No.5542 of 2019 and also under Section 2(c)(iii) read with Section 12, ibid., for interfering with the administration of justice.” https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis  Suo Motu Crl. Cont.Petn. No.613/2019 & Crl.O.P.No.19007/2019

You are requested to nominate an expert to give opinion on one question pertaining to Psychology which is disputed by the candidate.” It is the case of the Board that to the aforesaid letter,Vijayakumar gave a reply letter dated 28.02.2019 which reads as follows:

“I am happy to nominate Mr. Murthy known to me as IIT Professor in the Department of Mathematics (also done post graduate degree in Psychology) to give opinion on a disputed question in Numerical ability section of Psychology paper of TNUSRB exam held in 2019.” 22 Thus, according to the Board, Murthi was introduced to the Board by Vijayakumar via letter dated 28.02.2019, whereas, it is the specific case of Vijayakumar that these two letters were concocted by the CCB Police and the Board after his arrest on 01.04.2019 in order to satisfy the learned single Judge on 02.04.2019 that they were misled by Vijayakumar, who introduced Murthi to the Board as a Professor of Maths Department in IIT Madras. To establish this assertion of his, Vijayakumar placed satisfactory materials even while he was in the prison, before the learned single Judge as well before Mr. A.K. Viswanathan, I.P.S. stating that on 27.02.2019, he was not at all in Chennai and that he was delivering a lecture in Anna Institute of Management, Ooty, on Communication Skills.