GHAZIABAD: A 27-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly posing as an Indian Police Service (
IPS
)
officer
and cheating people on the pretext of giving them government jobs.
Anuj Prakash, a resident of Supertech Livingston in Crossings Republik, has a degree in mass communication from a Delhi institute and worked with some TV news channels, police said.
“In 2016, he went to Vietnam where he used to work with a recruitment agency. Towards the end of 2018, Anuj returned to India and from the next year, he got involved in criminal activities like duping people,” a police officer said.
He would introduce himself as an IPS officer and was even invited to his daughter’s school as a chief guest for its annual function in 2019. Police said, the school’s vice-principal is one of the victims and Anuj took Rs 3.9 lakh from the person with a promise of a job as a public relations officer at a government department.
Abhay Mishra, the circle officer and in-charge of the cyber cell said the matter came to light after retired major R Hudda, from Sector 9 in Vaishali, filed a police complaint alleging that Anuj had taken Rs 4.68 lakh from him in the name of providing him a job in Singapore.
“Hudda said in his complaint that Anuj met him as an IPS officer and took the money on the pretext of preparing visa and other documents,” Mishra said.“Last year, Anuj duped another person,
Sunil Singh, a resident of Ghaziabad. He took Rs 40,000 from the man in the name of giving him a job in Thailand,” a police officer said.
Anuj would gather data from social media platforms. According to the police, one of Anuj’s bank accounts shows transactions of more than Rs 1.5 crore. He has been booked under sections 406 (punishment for criminal breach of trust) and 420 (punishment for cheating) of the IPC.Anuj was produced in the district court and remanded in judicial custody.
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