Gujarat man held for impersonating an IAS officer ‘to dupe people’

Posing arsenic a apical authorities official, the accused contacted Pratik Shah, who runs a car rental business, and asked him to supply a conveyance fixed with a siren and curtains. However, helium did not wage the rent, Makwana said.

“The accused identified himself arsenic a manager successful the gross section and an IAS officer. He produced bogus letters claiming to beryllium from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and the “department of subject and probe development” and a enactment licence to get the siren and curtain fixed successful the car,” Makwana said.

He had besides forged an assignment missive from the Ahmedabad territory acquisition serviceman (DEO) to connection a machine operator’s occupation successful a authorities bureau to a complainant’s son. Shah adjacent introduced himself arsenic a trustee of a schoolhouse and did not wage Rs 7 lakh owed to different complainant implicit the coating of a schoolhouse building, the authoritative said.

“Despite holding nary authoritative presumption successful the authorities oregon cardinal government, helium utilized fake enactment permits and NOCs to cheat radical of lakhs of rupees,” the constabulary authoritative said.

Police person recovered from his possession fake individuality cards and letters with headings similar “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of the section of subject and probe development”, “health and household payment department”, and “road and gathering department”.

“The FIR is based connected complaints by 3 victims. We entreaty to the radical to travel guardant and taxable their complaints if they person been cheated by Shah successful immoderate way,” Makwana said.