The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has booked Ankit Kumar Singh for impersonating as Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in a case for personating a government servant.
“It has been learnt by this office that a man Ankit Kumar Singh is moving around claiming himself to be Dinesh Rao, an IAS officer of 1997 batch of Bihar cadre and posted as a Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office, and looking after Varanasi district.
His mobile number is 9454008098 and he is learnt to have contacted Prabhu Narayan Singh, District Magistrate, Agra, Uttar Pradesh seeking favours for his constituency.
Prima facie, it appears to be a case of impersonation as PMO official as no official by the given name is posted in this office. Accordingly, CBI is requested to lodge a complaint for initiating investigation into the matter, as per law,” Assistant Director, PMO, said in a complaint dated September 24, 2021.
The case was registered following notifications from the Department of Personnel and Training under which the CBI functions and the Home Department of the Uttar Pradesh Government for investigating the case.
While the UP Government accorded consent to the CBI to investigate the case under its jurisdiction across the State on August 24, 2022 and subsequently the DoPT notified the agency to probe the matter in a notification dated November 14 last year.
The suspect has been booked under Section 170 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) for personating a government servant.