PUNE: The Nigdi police on Thursday arrested a 21-year-old man from Lohiyanagar here for impersonating state BJP chief and Kothrud MLA Chandrakant Patil on a caller-identification app and demanding money from few doctors in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad “towards fighting Covid-19”.
A police team, led by senior inspector Ganesh Jawadwad, laid a trap in Pune in the early hours of Thursday and took the suspect, Saurabh Ashtul of Lohiyanagar, into custody. “He was produced before the court and remanded in police custody for three days,” Jawadwad told TOI. Ashtul allegedly sought Rs25 lakh from a doctor in Nigdi. He immediately contacted Patil, who told him to lodge an FIR. Patil, too, lodged an FIR with the Kothrud police as another doctor received a similar call.
A police team, led by senior inspector Ganesh Jawadwad, laid a trap in Pune in the early hours of Thursday and took the suspect, Saurabh Ashtul of Lohiyanagar, into custody. “He was produced before the court and remanded in police custody for three days,” Jawadwad told TOI. Ashtul allegedly sought Rs25 lakh from a doctor in Nigdi. He immediately contacted Patil, who told him to lodge an FIR. Patil, too, lodged an FIR with the Kothrud police as another doctor received a similar call.
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