Showing posts with label frauds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label frauds. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2016

Fake Officers: One “IAS” and one “IPS” arrested last week; Are there more such fake officers at large?

LAST week, authorities in Mumbai and Hyderabad in two separate cases caught two fake officers — one “IAS” and another “IPS” after both of them defrauded innocent people. The instances of English-speaking frauds posing as IAS, IPS and duping ordinary businessmen, have grown, leaving the police to be extra-cautious of fraudsters posing as senior officers. Here, one Suresh Yadav, 42, from Uttar Pradesh’s Sultanpur, landed up in Mumbai and duped four individuals of Rs 25 lakh in just one month after posing as a "suspended IAS" officer. According to media reports, Yadav became so audacious that after…