How a 68-year-old man from Greater Kailash posed as retired IPS officer to trick police

It was erstwhile constabulary questioned Katiyal that they realised helium was nary small-time cheat. Police said helium is simply a nonmigratory of Greater Kailash I.Katiyal, Additional Commissioner of Police (Ghaziabad) Dinesh Kumar P said, told them helium studied astatine the prestigious St Columba’s School. “On completing superior acquisition from St Columba’s and assemblage from Delhi University’s St Stephen’s, helium told america helium appeared for the UPSC introspection successful 1979 and failed. Then helium said helium went to Yale University to prosecute a PhD but near it midway and returned to India,” Kumar said.

“Back successful the country, Katiyal said helium worked arsenic a manager astatine Hindustan Lever (the sanction of the steadfast then) from 1980 to 2000… helium besides said helium was besides appointed vice-president astatine Vodafone, wherever helium worked,” Kumar added.

It was aft his status that helium started cheating people, claimed police. His go-to ruse was to present himself arsenic a 1979-batch IPS officer. “Prima facie, it seems similar helium was doing this to marque wealth by duping people… but helium besides seems to beryllium excited astir the thought of behaving similar a constabulary officer. He grew up successful that environment, determination is simply a feel-good origin astatine the centre of it,” Dinesh Kumar P said.

The lawsuit that led to his arrest

During the three-minute, five-second telephone to DCP Dasrat’s bureau connected November 14, Katiyal claimed helium has friends successful the constabulary force. He past asked the PRO, sub-inspector Neeraj Kumar Rathore: “Who is your Commissioner?” the constabulary quoted him saying.

Believing helium was a retired constabulary officer, PRO Rathore gave him the sanction and the fig of the Ghaziabad Police Commissioner.

Katiyal past briefed Rathore astir a lawsuit lodged astatine Indira-puram against Kapoor and handed implicit the telephone to him to explicate the full matter, said police.

The constabulary added that Kapoor took the telephone and complained that the Ghaziabad Police allegedly picked him up from his Gurgaon residence and locked him successful constabulary custody without immoderate evidence.

Katiyal, constabulary said, took the telephone backmost and told the PRO that the investigating serviceman successful Kapoor’s lawsuit should beryllium suspended and thrashed. He went connected to accidental that helium would person done it had helium inactive been a cop, said police.

Incidentally, the relationship betwixt Kapoor and Katiyal began conscionable 15 days ago, said Additional CP Kumar. He said they met done a Dubai-based businessman who knew Katiyal.

Kapoor had taken Rs 75 lakh from a antheral and was refusing to repay him, said Assistant Commissioner of Police (Indirapuram) Swatantra Kumar Singh, and an FIR was registered against the antheral 5 months agone successful the case. “When we went to verify his address, it was recovered to beryllium fake… so, we booked him,” said Singh.

Police said Katiyal was booked for impersonating a retired IPS officer, taking undue vantage of his forged identity, pressuring and interfering successful a constabulary probe relating to Kapoor, and forcibly extorting wealth portion obstructing authorities enactment based connected an FIR registered by SI Rathore.