PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: A 33-year-old man from Karad in Satara district was arrested on Tuesday evening on the charge of posing as an assistant commissioner of police (ACP) attached to the Mumbai police.
The police have recovered a fake identity card from him.
The police investigation revealed that the accused Pravin Suryawanshi was using the fake identity card to avoid paying toll. “Suryavanshi runs a shoe factory in Karad. He claimed that he had been using the fake card for the past six months,” said inspector Ajay Bhosale of the Chikhali police station.
On Tuesday evening, a team of Pimpri Chinchwad traffic police was taking action against drivers not wearing masks at Jadhav Sarkar Chowk in Kudalwadi. “Constable Sunil Gaikwad noticed two men in a car not wearing masks. When Gaikwad stopped them, one of the men told him that he was an ACP attached to the Mumbai police so Gaikwad told him to show his identity card,” the officer said.
He said that Gaikwad became suspicious after noticing the identity card. The national emblem and the star were seen on his uniform but ACPs in the state only have three stars, not the emblem. “The man was taken to the Kudalwadi police chowky for questioning. He admitted that he had been using a fake identity card,” the officer said.
Suryawanshi was held under Sections 468, 471, 420, 170 and 171 of the Indian Penal Code.