The Ahmedabad police have arrested a 29-year-old man who allegedly posed as an IAS officer and used faux letters claiming to be from numerous authorities departments as a way to cheat folks, an official stated on Sunday.
Mehul Shah, an engineer who manages two faculties at Vankaner in Gujarat’s Morbi district, is accused of constructing lakhs of rupees with bogus paperwork and false claims, stated inspector (crime department) JK Makwana.
Posing as a prime authorities official, the accused contacted Pratik Shah, who runs a automotive rental enterprise, and requested him to supply a car fastened with a siren and curtains. Nonetheless, he didn’t pay the lease, Makwana stated.
“The accused recognized himself as a director within the income division and an IAS officer. He produced bogus letters claiming to be from the Union Ministry of Residence Affairs and the “division of science and analysis growth” and a piece allow to get the siren and curtain fastened within the automotive,” Makwana stated.
He had additionally solid an appointment letter from the Ahmedabad district training officer (DEO) to supply a pc operator’s job in a authorities workplace to a complainant’s son. Shah even launched himself as a trustee of a faculty and didn’t pay Rs 7 lakh as a result of one other complainant over the portray of a faculty constructing, the official stated.
“Regardless of holding no official place within the state or central authorities, he used faux work permits and NOCs to cheat folks of lakhs of rupees,” the police official stated.
Police have recovered from his possession faux identification playing cards and letters with headings like “bharat gaurav ratna shri samman council”, “chairman of the division of science and analysis growth”, “well being and household welfare division”, and “street and constructing division”.
“The FIR relies on complaints by three victims. We enchantment to the folks to return ahead and submit their complaints if they’ve been cheated by Shah in any means,” Makwana stated.
