How 'UPSC rank holder' betrayed his parents

Bangalore, May 14: A closer examination of the documents in possession of Manjunath's family relating to UPSC exams clearly shows that Manjunath had fudged them. He committed suicide on Friday, after telling his family that UPSC?had made a mistake in announcing his results.

The copy of the hall ticket for Civil Service (Prelims) Examination, that UPSC too has admitted Manjunath attended, shows his roll number as 538745.

However, UPSC has clarified that the roll number allotted to him was 538950. The family only has a copy of the document, which has allegedly been fudged by Manjunath, changing the roll number from 538950 to 538745. Manjunath is suspected to have burnt the original document at the place of his death in Napoklu.

A copy of the hall ticket given to Manjunath by UPSC for the mains exams lets the cat out of the bag. A closer examination of this document, comparing it with the fudged prelims hall ticket of Manjunath, helps spot the differences.

The document number of both the documents (a computer generated number) is the same – CSP/539469/ 11217196859/047/1852012, which is impossible if the two are two separate documents. This clearly shows that Manjunath used his prelims hall ticket as a template and fudged it to produce a hall ticket for the mains exams. It is clear that Manjunath has changed the date and title of the examination in English and make it look like that of the Mains Examination.

He has changed the date of Mains examination as October 5, 2012 and also changed the title to 'You are admitted to the Civil Service (Main) Examination, 2012'. However the UPSC uses two languages – English and Hindi. In the title in Hindi - 'aapki civil seva (prathamik) pareeksha' in the hall ticket of prelims examination, he has erased the word prathamik, but the space is left blank.

Also, in English, the date of examination has been changed to October 5, 2012. But, the line above in Hindi says: 'Pareekshaa kii taareekh: May 20, 2012,' (same as in the prelims hall ticket). Also, Manjunath has changed the centre name and put Vishveshwarapuram College of Arts and Commerce, Koramangala. However, the above mentioned college is on K R Road and not in Koramangala. The address given is fake. He has also forged the signatures of the invigilators at the examination centre.

Thus, it is very clear that Manjunath V Y fudged all records to show that he had passed the civil service exams with a rank.

Manjunath's father is a broken man

Yadavamurthy, father of Manjunath, is a broken man today. He was convinced that his son had fudged the documents, when pointed out all the instances in the set of documents that he held dear and which he believed would help him get justice for his 'wronged' son.

Yadavamurthy broke down and said he hoped against hope that his son had cleared the exams and now all that was shattered. He said, till now, he had a pride that he was fighting for justice for his son wronged by the system. But now, he feels cheated and let down by his son.

He said he was intrigued as to why his son committed suicide for such a small discrepancy in the result and now he had a clear answer to his nagging doubt.

“If he was truthful, he would have fought it out. He cheated me, his mother and himself above all. He couldn't bear his mask being brought down. He is a coward who couldn't face the truth,” he said.

He recounted how he raised a loan of Rs 30,000 to take his son to Delhi, elated that his son was called for the interview. He said that though he did not get a call letter for the interview, Manjunath told his parents that he had called up the UPSC in New Delhi and explained the problem.

“Manjunath assured us that a senior official in UPSC had asked him to come to Delhi as his roll number was in the result sheet”.

Yadavamurthy said they reached New Delhi on the afternoon of April 14 and the next day, he accompanied his son to the UPSC office, where his son inquired with the Facilities department. He told them that his roll number was 538745 and he had not got the call letter. The official after cross-verifying the number said the scheduled interview was the next day and he could come and attend it with a set of his original documents.

On the afternoon of April 16, Manjunath went to the UPSC office with his parents. Yadavamurthy said while they were seated in the lobby of the Facilities department, Manjunath went in for the interview and turned up after about half-an-hour.

Yadavamurthy recounted that his son was confident and said that he had done well in the interview. The father now rues that his son cheated him to the hilt.

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