A fake female police officer has been caught in Bhopal's TT Nagar police station while intimidating a head constable.
She reached TT Nagar police station in the uniform of Additional SP. The station in-charge saw her badge. He suspected it to be fake. When questioned, the woman told that she had got the uniform made from Indore after watching a YouTube video.
The incident is of Friday evening. After registering a case against the woman, she was released from the police station on bail the same night. The girl also told that she has cleared the UPSC mains exam.
TT Nagar police station in-charge Sunil Bhadauria said that the accused Shivani Chauhan (24) is a resident of MIG Road, Indore. Her father is a driver and mother is a housewife.
According to the police, she visited the city's New Market with her cousin and sister-in-law on Friday afternoon. In the evening, she took her brother and sister-in-law to TT Nagar police station saying that this is her office andshe will come after the police station staff.
She entered through the main gate of the police station and reached the ACP office built in the campus. From there, she reached the police station and started showing off her power while talking to a head constable.
The accused was showing off her power to the head constable, when the station in-charge Sunil Bhadoria reached his cabin. He talked to the woman, then he got suspicious seeing her badge. Her name and number were also written on it. He realised that the woman had come as a fake officer. When she was asked questions related to the police, she got nervous. She was taken into custody and a case of impersonification was registered against her.
She said she did this to make her mother happy. Her mother's health is very bad. To make her happy, she made up a fake story of being selected and getting a job in the police while she was alive.
She came from Indore on Friday and told her brother and sister-in-law that she has joined the job. Her office is in TT Nagar. The police are investigating the woman's statements.
Shivani told the police that she had bought police uniform, belt and shoes from the store located in front of the police canteen in Indore. She also got the badge made from the same store. What does an Additional SP's uniform look like, how many Ashoka emblems and stars are there on it and how are they put on it? She learned all this by watching YouTube. On this basis, she got the uniform prepared.
ACP Chandra Shekhar Pandey said that the woman was seen with the uniform in New Market, then the female constables questioned her on suspicion. The whole matter was revealed after bringing her to the police station and questioning her. A case has been registered against her.
