Fake colonel, a resident of Punjab, who was cheating people in lieu of recruiting in the Army in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh, caught by the Iglas police on Thursday.
In Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh, fake colonel resident of Punjab, who cheated people in lieu of recruiting in the army, caught up by the Iglas police on Thursday. He walked around wearing the Lieutenant Colonel uniform. Several number plates and fake IDs were found in the car which he used to escape from the police.
SP Dehat Atul Sharma told that a person from Punjab who cheated some people in Mathura in the name of a job in the army. On Thursday, it was found that the accused is coming to Bhilpur, a village in Iglas to take the money. Inspector Iglas, Praveen Kumar Mann and SO Madan Singh stopped his car in front of Batto Devi School near village Bhilpur-Balipur. The car rider was in the uniform of Army Lieutenant Colonel. When they stopped the car, he started calling himself Lieutenant Colonel. After inspecting vigorously, the inspector found the Aadhaar card, which had the name Sarvan, son of Gurmel, resident of Ludhiana, Punjab. On strict questioning, the accused stated his real name as Pradeep alias Piru, son of Gurmel. He used to call himself a lieutenant colonel and cheated the youth in the name of getting a job in the army. Seven and a half lakhs taken from three people in Mathura
Ramkumar, a resident of village Kudwara in Mant (Mathura) region, had registered a case of cheating against the accused on Tuesday. He said that the accused had convinced himself to get a job by calling him a Colonel in the Army. The fake colonel took two and a half lakh rupees from Manoj and Tejveer of the same village and his companions. He also took education related papers. On 10 July, Rajkumar gave 7.5 lakh rupees Lokesh Sharma, resident of Bhilpur. On finding about the fraud and asking for money and papers, Sarvan( fake colonel) threatened to kill the victims.