A resident of Kolkata, impersonating as police officer and kin of Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand was arrested from new Circuit House here on Saturday, police said.
“The man identified as Shyam Sundar Dhand had also been to the Chintan Shivir of BJP held in Barnawapara recently. There he got ‘selfi’ clicked with State cabinet ministers including Rajesh Munat, Brijmohan Agrawal and also Chief Minister Raman Singh’s son Abhishek Singh,” Station House Officer (SHO) Civil lines Virendra Chaturvedi said.
According to the police, the accused used to share the pages of various welfare schemes run by State government on his facebook wall.
“At Circuit House he had projected himself as police officer of Intelligence Wing and had got reserved a room. As we came to know about the reservation, we picked him up and questioned wherein the fraud came to light,” the SHO said while adding that Shyam Sundar had maintained the attire of an IPS officer.
A hotel located near Railway Station where he was staying has unpaid bill of about Rs 60,000. The accused had told the hotel owner where he was staying for past six months that he was a relative of Chief Secretary Vivek Dhand, the SHO added.
He has been booked under Section 419 (Impersonation) and 420 (Cheating) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).