Impersonation case: Court upholds charges against two girls

A sessions court in the Karkardooma courts complex on Thursday has upheld the cheating and impersonation charges against two girls,one of whom sat in place of the other in a medical entrance test.

Additional Sessions Judge T R Naval also upheld the charge of cheating and criminal conspiracy against the second girls father for making his daughter write the paper after taking a payment of Rs 1.5 lakh.

The judge said there was sufficient material evidence in the form of statements of witnesses against all three for framing charges against them.

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The reasons which support my decision to uphold the charges are firstly that all the ingredients which make out the offence of cheating,criminal conspiracy and cheating by impersonation are there in the present case, the judge said.

The court said the evidence showed that the girls father was present at the examination centre and he had brought his daughter there for appearing in the common entrance test in the place of another.

For this purpose,he had also agreed upon a sum of Rs 1.5 lakh from the other girl of which he took an advance of Rs 50,000. He was to receive the remaining amount after his daughter cleared the exam for the other girl,the court said.

As per the prosecution,IP University had conducted a common entrance examination (CET) on June 15,2005.

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The two girls,along with the father of one of them,were caught by the officials at St Lawrence Convent examination centre of Geeta Colony in East Delhi.

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