Man, son arrested for duping people in UP's Aligarh

AGRA: A man claiming to be a retired senior executive from Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and his law graduate son were arrested by UP's Aligarh police on Monday for allegedly extorting money from people with the latter posing as an IPS officer.
The police identified the fake cop as Anuj Chawla, 34, who introduced himself to people as an IPS officer, posted in Home ministry, Delhi. He completed his studies from Law College, Dehradun, said police.
Anuj’s father, Rajendra Chawla, 66, who retired from BHEL, was also involved in the scam with him and the duo had been fleecing people for the past five years. They hail from Lucknow.
The car seized by police
Police recovered a car which had several fake vehicle passes purportedly issued by Home ministry and UP government in it, and some fake investigation reports of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and a two way walkie-talkie set.
SP (crime) Arvind Kumar said that the vehicle Innova cresta, carrying a logo of Deputy Inspector General (DIG), was spotted by the police during checking at Bhikampur turn. Due to some suspicious activities, they were questioned by the police and finally they confessed that they were impersonating the cop.
Kumar said that the vehicle in which they were travelling in was hired from Lucknow and a DIG star plate was displayed on it. The driver, who drove the car to Aligarh, was told that they were travelling to Aligarh for a secret inspection of Covid-19 situation.
Circle officer Bannadevi, Pankaj Srivastava, said that they had come to Aligarh two days back and had stayed in a posh hotel and then had shifted to some local resident’s house. He said that they had fleeced some people by promising to fix marriages of their daughters with the fake IPS officer.
Srivastava said that whenever someone questioned them about their backgrounds, they usually told them that his name and details would not be available on google as he was working as a secret officer at Kolkata branch of NIA .
An FIR has been registered under various sections including 170 (impersonating a public servant), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of IPC at Banna Devi police station. Police are in the process of collecting information on those who lost their money to the fake DIG.