The Police Departments of Pune, Ahmednagar, and Nashik have been very energetic these days. Based mostly on the inputs acquired from the Army Intelligence (MI), the Police have been on a spree of investigating fraudsters posing as Military, and protection personnel and arresting the impersonators.
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Joint Operation:
After receiving info from the MI unit of Pune Headquartered Southern Command, the District Police of Ahmednagar carried out a joint operation close to Professor Chowk within the metropolis’s Saveli space, with a workforce comprising of sleuths of MI together with the Native Crime Department of town police. A 35-year-old man impersonating himself because the officer of the Analysis and Evaluation Wing (RAW) has been arrested.
The sleuths of the MI unit grew to become energetic after receiving info {that a} suspect impersonating himself as a RAW officer has been current in Ahmednagar, which is dwelling to a number of delicate protection items specifically the Mechanised Infantry Centre and Faculty, Automobile Analysis and Growth Institution, and the Armoured Corps Centre and Faculty. The Police are investigating if the accused was making an attempt to acquire entry to any delicate institution or was solely concerned in duping folks utilizing a pretend identification on the pretext of giving them jobs.
A voter Id card and Adhar card have been acquired from the accused which, identifies him as Santosh Atmaram Rathod (35), a resident of Divate village in Ahmednagar district’s Shevgaon taluka. Moreover, the Police have additionally recovered a pretend identification card with the title ‘Santosh Rathod”, organisation Analysis and Evaluation Wing, and his designation because the deputy secretary (inner safety). The pretend identification additionally had the signature of the ‘issuing authority”.
The officers mentioned that they’ve acquired info that the accused could have duped some youth on the promise of offering them with jobs within the protection organisations by faking his identification.
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Rathod has been booked beneath the Indian Penal Code for forgery for dishonest, impersonating a public servant, forgery, carrying garb, and carrying a token as a public servant.
Mr. Rakesh Ola, superintendent of police (SP) Ahmednagar has requested folks to come back ahead if they’ve been the sufferer of the fraud. Mother and father and younger aspirants want to know that the armed forces and the police conduct correct recruitment rallies They need to not fall prey to the tips of brokers promising to offer them jobs into the forces with out collaborating within the rallies.