An imposter involved in spoofing caller IDs of senior police officers close user group (CUG) numbers, was arrested by a Special Task Force team in Gorakhpur on Wednesday.
The accused was nabbed after he tried to spoof the CUG No of DGP Javeed Ahmed to get a Station Officer removed.
SSP Gorakhpur received a call on his CUG number from the DGP’s number on October 27 and the caller asked the SSP to remove one of the Station House Officers after claiming that he was receiving complaints against him.
Sensing that it was not the voice of the top cop, the SSP confirmed it and finding that it was a fake call, immediately got a case registered with the Cantonment police station. The DGP then asked the STF to track down the accused.
The STF team started probing and learnt that the call was made through internet by spoofing the caller ID of DGP’s CUG number. They also learnt that the accused also used the modus operandi to make calls to other officers and get his work done. On Wednesday night, the STF sleuths dropped the net on the accused at Betiyahata area of Cantonment in Gorakhpur.
The accused identified himself as Ramnagina Singh of Mehdawal in Sant Kabir Nagar. A fake ID card of a police constable with the name Ramnagina Singh and a photograph along with Adhar Card, PAN card, driving licence, half a dozen debit cards and two mobile phones wererecovered from his possession.
The accused confessed that he had made calls and used to extort money from cops after getting their work done by senior officers. He procured several SIM cards of fake IDs and used them to call through internet. Further investigations are on in this regard.