CHENNAI: Four days after IAS officer C Umashankar was suspended, a clarification about his community certificate came from a mysterious fax number. The four-page clarification titled "sequence of events relating to obtaining false Scheduled Caste community certificate by C Umashankar, IAS'', reiterated that the officer had, indeed, produced a false caste certificate to get selected as an IAS officer.
''Ever since he was selected by Union Public Service Commission in 1989-90, he is serving in Indian Administrative Service in a highly irregular, grossly dishonest and wholly unjustified manner'', the fax message said.
The message further said Umashankar's parents Chellakani and Suganthi, though Hindus by birth, converted to Christianity and were Christians at the the time of their marriage. As such, Umashankar was a born Christian.
Umashankar converted to Hinduism on February 14, 1984 and applied for the issue of SC community certificate claiming that he was a 'reconvert' to Hindu religion and got the certificate on October 23, 1986.
Umashankar had not adhered to the conditions existing at that time in respect of converts to Hindu religion and therefore his action in having obtained SC community certificate is not correct and is a false one, the message said and added that only on the strength of the false certificate, Umashankar was allotted to IAS service.