IAF commander arrested in Bhopal for impersonating home minister

STF also arrested a Bhopal-based dentist, whose name was recommended by the wing commander as the vice-chancellor of Jabalpur’s Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University.

Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a wing commander of the Indian Air Force, who allegedly impersonated as Union home minister Amit Shah over a phone call to the state’s governor to influence the appointment of a vice-chancellor in a medical university.

Madhya Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) has arrested a wing commander of the Indian Air Force, who allegedly impersonated as Union home minister Amit Shah over a phone call. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/Representative image)

STF also arrested a Bhopal-based dentist, whose name was recommended by the wing commander as the vice-chancellor of Jabalpur’s Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University.

Additional director general, STF, Ashok Awasthi said, “We have arrested IAF wing commander Kuldeep Baghela and dentist Chandresh Kumar Shukla on charges of impersonating as home minister Amit Shah and calling the governor over phone to influence the appointment of a vice-chancellor.”

Awasthi said Baghela, who is currently posted at IAF headquarters in Delhi, was earlier posted as ADC to former Madhya Pradesh governor Ramnaresh Yadav for three years.