4 held for cheating Ahmedabad man, impersonating CJI and CBI officers

The accused person been identified arsenic Mohammedali Javedali Patawat, Tarunsinh Shyam Vaghela, Brijesh Bharat Parekh, and Shubham Rajkumar Thakar.

On October 7, officials said, an Ahmedabad nonmigratory received calls from the accused posing arsenic constabulary officers, and officials from the CBI and 1 of them adjacent impersonated the Chief Justice of India, who frightened him by telling him that determination had been transactions of amounts successful excess of Rs 2 crore from his slope account.

They further threatened him with apprehension for wealth laundering and said helium would beryllium sentenced to 5 years successful prison, arsenic per police.

The antheral was past allegedly told since helium is simply a elder national and didn’t person immoderate adjacent relatives, they would taxable a petition successful the Supreme Court of India to not apprehension him if helium aided successful the “investigation” implicit video telephone from his house.

The unfortunate readily agreed to this suggestion.

During video calls with the man, the miscreants made him uncover each his slope relationship details and made him interruption his fixed deposit and transportation the full magnitude of Rs 1.26 crore to them connected the “assurance” that helium would get the wealth backmost wrong 48 hours aft owed “verification”.

They adjacent sent him a fake certificate with the masthead of the Supreme Court of India, according to a connection from the constabulary connected Wednesday.

They past sent the wealth guardant to their different co-conspirators. Further probe is underway, officials added.