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Man posing as Dy SP held
A YOUTH posing as deputy superintendent of police (Dy SP), Special Task Force (STF), was arrested by the Fazalganj police here on Monday.
A YOUTH posing as deputy superintendent of police (Dy SP), Special Task Force (STF), was arrested by the Fazalganj police here on Monday.
A class IV employee of the Kanpur Municipal Corporation (KMC) Umesh Nath, who posed as STF DSP, sought the help of the police to settle a score with the manager of a Punjab National Bank (PNB) branch. On receiving his call and thinking that their boss was in trouble, the police arrived on the scene to bail him out. But soon the cops came to know that he was an impostor and arrested him.
The Fazalgunj police said the Nath, who had confessed to his crime, was sent to jail under section 171 of the IPC. The police said that the youth who lived in Vijay Nagar area had a tiff with the PNB manager, as the cheque he had deposited a week ago, was not credited to his account.
The manager who could not convince him hounded him out of the branch and consequently, Nath attempted to lodge an FIR wit the Govind Nagar police.
There also, he did not get any co-operation. On finding no way out, he posed as a senior cop to teach a lesson to the bank manager.
He called up the city control room on 100, telling the operator that he was DSP (STF ) and needed the help of the Fazalgunj police outside the bank. The information was passed on to the SHO DN Singh who sent a sub-inspector BL Maurya and some others to the spot.
Maurya brought him to the police station and he was asked to produce the identity card, Nath showed the cops a newspapaer clipping about the transfer of a DSP named Umesh to STF. Later, when he was questioned, he confessed to his crime.
