Inspired by Bollywood flick 'Special-26', a 31-year-old pharmacist posed as the Joint Director of CBI and called up Additional Director General of Foreign Trade to renew the export license of a company. However, he ran out of luck after the complainant approached police and sleuths of the Delhi Police's Crime Branch tracked him down and arrested for him.
The accused, Amit Aggarwal, used to impress people with his confidence, fluent English and etiquette. Now, after his arrest, investigators are probing his involvement in other cases of similar character. The investigators will ask senior officers of Airtel Telecom Company to cooperate with the investigation procedure as the SIM card and the phone set was obtained from the office of the said company.
Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Yadav said that Amit is a resident of Pitampura, who had allegedly also called up the owner and senior officials of a real estate company asking them to settle a property related matter or face dire consequences. But, his plan did not work out as two complaints were filed with the Crime Branch against him within a span of one week.
"Amit told the police that he carried out the crimes after being influenced by Bollywood film 'Special 26' where a group of people posing as CBI officials executed a heist. The Anti Extortion Unit of the Crime Branch had received the first complaint on October 8 from New Delhi's Additional DG of Foreign Trades, who alleged that someone posing as CBI's Joint Director called him and insisted that he renew the export license of an import/export company of Jhandewalan in New Delhi," Yadav said. A week later, on October 15, another complaint of similar nature was received from DGM, Human Resources Department, Omaxe limited, New Delhi.
"The complainant told police that around 20 days ago a person introducing himself as CBI Joint Director started threatening and blackmailing the company's senior officials to either pay Rs 60 lakh each for two plots to two Rohtak-based persons against their earlier deposited amount of `9 lakh each or settle the matter with them at the earliest," Yadav added.
After registering the case, police started their investigation under the supervision of Inspector Yashpal Singh and overall supervision of DCP (crime) Bhisham Singh.During investigation, it was found that the calls were made from a phone number obtained through fake documents.