Uttar Pradesh cop does 2 jobs, teacher & constable, caught after 5 yrs

BAREILLY: Since 2016, Anil Kumar had been leading the peaceful existence of a teacher at a primary school in a Muzaffarnagar village. In those five years, about 140km away, “Anil Kumar” was also rushing around Moradabad as an emergency responder, a cop. Five years on, a phone call busted what had been a convenient arrangement for Anil — he had cracked the government teachers’ test, landed a job, did not quit the police job he already had and sent off his brother-in-law to take his place with a transfer and a fake ID.
On Thursday, police at the Thakurdwara station in Moradabad received a call, said the complaint by SHO Satyendra Singh on the basis of which an FIR was filed, saying the identity of a cop, Anil Kumar, was being falsely used by someone else. “Anil”, posted with a public response vehicle (PRV) of the Dial 112 unit, was summoned. “He came in his uniform, his name tag on him, with the PRV driver,” the complaint said. He was asked where he was from, who his father was. He had the answers. He was from Muzaffarnagar, became a cop in 2011 after training at Bareilly Police Lines and his father was Sukhpal Singh.
But there was one slip-up — he did not know who the Bareilly SSP was at the time he said he had been trained. At this point, “Anil” excused himself to go to the washroom, and took off. Police, meanwhile, found the photograph in the records did not match the man they had met. It was, instead, someone called Sunil Kumar, who turned out to be Anil’s brother-in-law.
“Anil and Sunil had known each other since they were in Class XII. In 2016, when Anil cracked the teachers’ test, he asked Sunil to take his place so he could take the time and complete his BEd degree. To make sure nobody found out it was not actually Anil, he took a transfer to Moradabad. Meanwhile, he started working as a primary school teacher in Muzaffarnagar and married Sunil’s sister in 2017,” a police officer said. “Anil had even handed in his service revolver to Sunil.”
The two have been charged with abetment of offence, pretending to hold office as a public servant, wearing any garb or carrying any token resembling any garb or token used by a class of public servants while not belonging to the class of public servants, cheating by personation and criminal conspiracy. Circle officer Anoop Singh said, “Both of them were arrested and sent to jail on Saturday. We will continue the investigation to find out if someone else helped them. I am sending a team to Muzaffarnagar to collect information from the Basic Shiksha Adhikari office.”