Asst DU prof poses as L-G, asks V-C to hire his sister; held

An assistant professor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha (GGSIP) University has been arrested for impersonating Delhi lieutenant-governor V.K. Saxena and calling the vice chancellor in September 2022 to appoint a particular candidate in the English department.

The accused, identified as Rohit Singh, was arrested at IGI Airport after he returned from the UK on May 15. He had got his leave sanctioned after he called the V-C on his landline phone in the guise of the L-G.

According to the police, Singh has admitted that he called the vice chancellor twice over the landline phone impersonating the L-G.

“In the first instance, he got his leave sanctioned and in the second instance on September 30, he called the VC impersonating the L-G to get his sister selected as a faculty in the English department,” said a senior police official.

The official said that the police had registered an FIR on November 2, 2022, at Dwarka North police station and began investigations after a complaint was received regarding a call made to vice chancellor Dr Mahesh Verma by an unidentified person impersonating the L-G.

“To ascertain the veracity of the call, the vice chancellor had contacted the LG’s Secretariat, which denied having made any such call and asked for the matter to be reported to the police immediately,” an official in the L-G office said.

“On his return from the UK, Rohit Singh was arrested at the IGI Airport and was produced before a court which sent him to police custody. Upon the expiry of his police custody, he was produced before the court, which sent him into judicial custody. A lookout circular was pending against him,” said the official.

As per the official, the LG had taken an extremely serious view in this matter of impersonation and emphasised that it has never been his style of functioning to make calls or entertain any request whatsoever that involved out-of-turn favours, benefits, or unethical practices.