Afzal Chaudhary, former member of Uttar Pradesh State minority commission, who was sacked on Thursday by Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath, was arrested by the Ghaziabad Police under the serious charges of forgery and impersonation. Chaudhary is accused of impersonating as Deputy Chief Minister, former Union Finance Minister, former Chief Minister of Gujarat and MlA in UP Assembly. Police recovered a Mercedes car, a mobile phone and five SIM from his possession.
Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Vaibhav Krishna said while briefing the media that the accused allegedly scolded him and District Magistrate (DM) of Ghaziabad Ritu Maheswari several times in past on telephone. The SSP said that while talking on telephone the accused allegedly impersonated himself as some big influential political figure such as Yashwant Sinha, sometimes as Shankar Singh Baghela, sometimes as Ashok Bhan MlA son of former UP Governor Suraj Bhan.
Once he allegedly impersonated himself as Dinesh Sharma the Deputy Chief Minister of UP.
On being suspicious over his tone of talking, I doubted him so I asked surveillance cell to put phone on surveillance to track the location from which he phoned. The location was found in Mumbai,” said SSP.
The SSP said that the accused talk to him in a very rude manner over telephone and asked him to get two road rage accused free from crime which comes under Tronika city police station of loni circle.
DM Ritu Maheswari told that she was asked to settle a land dispute in Masuri area in favor of a retired PCS officer Jitendra so of late Pratap Singh who has allegedly asked Afzal to get his work done from her.
Upon investigation by the crime branch it was found that the accused Afzal allegedly used to impersonate by different names so bas to get the illegal works done. However he failed in his latest attempt and was finally nabbed from near BSNl office in Raj Nagar District Centre (RDC).
He was arrested along with his accomplice Krishna Kumar S/O Vir Singh a resident of Dankaur in Greater Noida. During sustained interrogation he revealed his identity as Afzal Chaudhary son of Zafar Ahmad a resident of Pavi Sadakpur under Tronika police station District Ghaziabad.
A criminal case has been registered against him and his accomplice under section 420, 429, 467, 507 of IPC and section 66 D of IT Act. A reward of Rs. 5000 has been awarded to the police team.