Police have arrested two conman who were pretending as Central Bureau Intelligence (CBI) officers on Saturday. Addressing the newsmen at his office on Sunday, the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Pushpak Jyoti said that Majra resident Sadul Krishna had lodged a complaint with Patel Nagar police station in which he alleged that he was with his girlfriend in a room of a guest house on March 7 when a person entered the room and interrogated him as an officer of CBI. The intruder started misbehaving with the woman in the room and threatened the duo with a pistol. He took photographs of the couple and demanded a sum of Rs50,000. The complainant alleged that the blackmailer deposited his driving license and mobile phone as security till the money is paid.
The SSP said that a team led by the Patel Nagar SHO was constituted on the complaint. The team nabbed Bhagwanpur Haridwar residents Rao Arif and Rao Kasif within three hours of lodging the complaint. Interestingly the culprits called up the complainant pretending to be an Inspector posted at Clement town police station and asked him to bring the money at a sweet shop at Turner road. The police team nabbed the culprits from the site where they demanded money. The police team recovered .32 pistol and other things from their possession.
Rao Kasif who masqueraded as CBI officer has a spare part shop in Transport Nagar in Haridwar while Rao Arif works in a private bank. The police team consisted of ISBT Police post In- charge Sub Inspector Naresh Rathore, SI Kotwali Rafat Ali, Constables Satyendra, Ajay Tomar and Manoj Chouhan.